Malchiner See

The Malchiner Lake is located southwest of the eponymous city Malchin. Lakeside, the counties of Rostock and Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern shares. The lake is about eight kilometers long and is located in a charming natural scenery.

Description

Geologically, the lake is Malchiner together with the Lake Kummerow in about 30 kilometer Malchiner pool, a glacial trough, by melt water below the ice took its present form during the Pomeranian stage of the Weichselian.

At the southwest end of the lake Malchiner the West Peene opens an addition to several other streams, which leaves the lake in a wetland area on the northeastern edge of the nature reserve lime Between Moor Wendish Hagen again. Here it is mainly drained by the Dahmer canal, which joins in Malchin with the Ostpeene the navigable channel Peene. The water level is on average 0.8 meters above mean sea level. The average depth of the lake is 2.5 meters, so it is in large parts of the lake Malchiner a crypto- depression. Before the construction of the Dahmer canal in the 19th century, the water level was two meters higher. In the north of the lake are the lowest with about ten feet positions. In the middle there is a sand threshold at which the lake is only half a meter flat.

The lake is located in the Natural Park Mecklenburg Switzerland and Lake Kummerow. At its southern end runs a section of the Ice Age route Mecklenburg Lake District. In Dahmen and Seedorf, there are tourist facilities. The Eichberg reached a mile from its eastern shore 54.5 meters above mean sea level, the Ostberg four kilometers north of the lake 115.2 meters above mean sea level.