Mildenitz (river)

Course of Mildenitz

Boating on the Mildenitz

The Mildenitz is a right tributary of the river Warnow in Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, which runs completely in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim.

River

The Mildenitz rises on the southern edge of the middle Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heath. There, their source is located nine kilometers north-west of Plau between the villages and small Zarchlin Wangelin in a grassy area east of the lake Penzliner in a bifurcation. The river has a total catchment area of 524 km ².

The Mildenitz has about three kilometers away from their place of departure developed by inflows from small ditches and meadow breaks into a considerable stream. The 62 -mile path leads to the northeast in the Damerower forest by pine forest and marsh areas for Damerower lake. The Mildenitz is now in the range of Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heath, the flows through them over long distances. On this stretch of river still has quite natural areas. From the exit on the western shore of the lake Dammerower it flows through the village Sandhof to the west as a channel straight on into the Greater and Lesser Serrahn, a nature reserve of 722 hectares between Sandhof and the Goldberger lake. 200 years ago, the area of the Great Serrahns was a shallow lake, which is silted up by the lowering of the water level. The Serrahn is restricted area of the Bundeswehr and not accessible. After about a kilometer the Mildenitz flows on the southeastern shore in the Goldberger lake. On the west bank of the further way as small stream runs through the town Goldberg, past the local museum. The building was the water-powered mill office in earlier times. From Goldberg Mildenitz flows after passing under the wooden bridge on Bollenberger way forward to Ziddericher meadow area in the Dobbertiner lake.

The Dobbertiner lake, once known as Jawir lake, is closely connected with the history of since 1220 located on the northern shore ends former Benedictine monastery Dobbertin. The outflow of Mildenitz is split in two on the north shore. What is new is the way of the fish ladder at the monastery park. The old stream course shall, under the water mill with the eel, past the old monastery mill, in the direction Dobbiner and Klädener plague. It is named after the two districts Dobbertiner Dobbin and Kläden valley, which was once a shallow lake. Between the paradise paddock with its juniper stock and Klädener plague the straightened Mildenitz flows about four miles further to the Old Klädener mill. Here the Mildenitz - transverse valley begins. Klädener Plage and the transverse valley belong to the nature reserve Klädener Plage and Mildenitz - transverse valley.

The one and a half kilometers long and narrow section through the transverse valley is one of the most beautiful in the Mildenitz. The river here makes its way through a terminal moraine, whose steep slopes rising to over 15 meters. Old houses surround the valley. Some are uprooted in or across the water. A picnic area with explanatory panels gives information about the flora and fauna.

The transverse valley of Mildenitz is in addition to the breakdown routes of the rivers Warnow and remove one of the three major Mecklenburg breakthrough valleys within the ice stage of the Pomeranian stage of the Weichsel glaciation. In Mildenitz - carved by seven Verebnungsniveaus are formed at different altitudes, of which five considered terrace developments of the Mildenitz. The term transfer of Mildenitz in the area of the Black Sea in the first half of the 19th century was the last strong engagement in Mildenitz - transverse valley.

After the gap through the terminal moraine it goes on in the Black Lake, a lake with dark water stain. After the northern mouth of the Mildenitz leaves only a few meters of the lake. Just south of the road to Sternberg receives inflow from the north coming from the lake Woseriner Bresenitz. Through the forest the forest Schlower it comes out again with numerous meanders in the Borkower sea and on the north side. With several meter high slope it then flows on the outskirts of Borkow under the bridge the main road 192, past the manor of the village to lead after three kilometers in Rothener lake.

After the crossing of a breakthrough section at the mill by Rothener. The Mildenitz reached here a loss of height of 22.5 meters. While some of the water can continue to flow in the old river bed, 500 meters is passed behind the Rothener See the most over the 5.8 km long, in parts cased Mildenitzkanal in the reservoir near the village of Zülow. In Zülow the hydroelectric power station built in 1924 Zülow is operated with this water, which is the largest hydroelectric plant in West Mecklenburg with a fall of 22 meters.

After three kilometers, the Mildenitz and Mildenitzkanal open separately under the federal highway 104 through the Trenntsee. This north of Sternberg lake in one of the four lakes in the city, all of which are interconnected. From Trenntsee through the Great Sternberger See the Mildenitz leaves on the northern shore of the lake and flows through a valley to the place Sternberger castle. Just a few hundred meters to the north opens the Mildenitz in the Warnow. Together it works for large Görnow by up to 40 meters deep gorge cut further into the Baltic Sea.

Watershed

The source of Mildenitz lies on the North Sea and Baltic Sea watershed. This means that the Mildenitz, which flows in a northerly direction, driving on the Warnow the Baltic Sea, while only short streams and ditches that flow on the southern side of the ridge at Plauerhagen, flow over the Elde and Elbe into the North Sea.

History

The Mildenitz was first mentioned in the extension of Dobbertiner monastery's possessions in 1237 as Bach Milnitz. In the deed the Lord operated to Werle and Rostock Nicholas the boundaries of the monastery area, including [ ... ] the brook Milnitz ( Mildenitz ) from Jawir See ( Dobbertiner lake ) to the lake Wostrowitz ( the drained Klädener and Dobbiner lake ) and on to the Bach Bresenitze ( Bresenitz ) [ ... ]

In the course of the river through the Mildenitz Dobbertiner Klosteramts area were made in 1814 and 1815 purges of the creek bank to avoid drainage problems and 1873-1922 more banks Beräumungen

Maps

• Wiebekingsche map of Mecklenburg, 1786.
• Business card Forestry Office Dobbertin 1927/1928.
• Official bike and hiking map of the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heath, 2010.