Åupawa (river)
Course of the river Lupow
Lupow hydropower plant at Smołdzino ( Schmolsin )
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The Łupawa ( German Lupow ) is a coastal river in Poland, which runs through the Pomeranian Voivodeship in south-north direction and empties into the Baltic Sea. Together with the Obrówka its length is 98.7 km, the catchment area of 924.5 km ².
The Łupawa rises in 114 meters above sea level in Jezioro Obrowo Duże ( Big Wobbrower lake ), flows through the Jezioro Jasień ( Jassener lake ) and winds northwest through the ground moraine to Jezioro Gardno ( Garder See ), in which she pushes a large delta. It flows through the lake, and flows between Rowy ( Rowe ) and Rowek (small Rowe ) in the Baltic Sea.
Inflows of Łupawa are:
- Bukovina ( Buckowin )
- Mydlity
- Rokitnica
- Rębowa ( Rambow )
- Darżyńska Struga
- Charstnica ( Carstnitz ).
In the lower reaches of the Łupawa there are six places hydroelectric power plants, which together have a capacity of 0.94 MW:
- Łupawa ( Lupow )
- Poganice ( Poganitz )
- LeBien ( Labehn )
- Drzeżewo ( Dresow )
- Żelkowo (Wendish Silkow, 1938-45 Schwerin height )
- Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ).
In its course the Łupawa happened the communities: in the circle Bytów ( Buetow ):
- Czarna Dąbrówka ( Black Damerkow )
In a circle Slupsk ( Stolp ):
- Potegowo ( Pottangow )
- Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz )
- Smołdzino ( Schmolsin )
- Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).
The Łupawa is designated as a special protection area "Natura 2000" of the European Union. They considered an attractive route for canoeing.
" Malerkolonie Rowe "
The German painter Max Pechstein lived in the years 1927 to 1944 every summer in Rowe and collected a number of artists around him that held the dunes landscape painters, the play of water and land in their works. Among the artists included, among other Otto Priebe, who died in 1945 in Stolp, and Walter Zuchors.
Among the surviving works of the Lupow estuary include eg by Max Pechstein: Lupowmündung 1927, oil on canvas, 51 × 59.5 cm, by Walter Zuchors: dunes at Leba, 1942, Oil on canvas, 80 × 58 cm.