Maurine

Maurine in Schoenberg

The Maurine is an approximately 20 km long left tributary of the Stepenitz in the extreme northwest of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

River

The Maurine originates in a small wooded area between the towns of Carlow and Great Rünz in the southwest of the district of North West Mecklenburg at 45 m above sea level. NHN and initially flows in a southwesterly direction. South of Carlow, the watercourse turns north, flowing through Carlow and takes place north of the Stover Mill creek on. In its middle and lower section of the river to the municipalities and Niendorf United Siemz passes. It crosses north of Great Siemz the federal highway 20 south of Schoenberg drain on both sides numerous trenches of a wetland in the Maurine. Four kilometers from the confluence with the Stepenitz the river reaches the small town of Schönberg and wraps around the gardens of the city. About the upper pond drained the Rupensdorfer Bach in the Maurine. Northeast of the city's Maurine is crossed by the railway line Lübeck- bath small and the federal highway 104. The section between Schoenberg and the mouth is part of the 501 -acre nature reserve Stepenitz and Maurine Lowland. In this area lie on both sides of the river large-scale flow Moore.

The height difference from the source to the mouth is about 45 meters. The size of the catchment area is 167 km ².

Watershed

The headwaters of the Maurine lying northeast of the North Sea - Baltic Sea watershed: while Maurine about Travelodge Stepenitz and flows into the Baltic Sea, the area drained southwest of the watershed on the Schaale, brews and Elbe into the North Sea.

History

The city of Lübeck waived in a statement to Mecklenburg February 16, 1887 the exercise of its rightful since the Middle Ages sovereign rights on the Maurine.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Maurine was straightened.