Müggelsee

Fredersdorfer Mühlenfließ

The Müggelsee is the largest of the Berlin lakes. In order to delineate its related, only 15 acres of small Müggelsee he is referred to as the Great Müggelsee. The Müggelsee belongs to the Berlin district of Treptow -Köpenick Köpenick the districts (the largest part ), Friedrich Hagen ( Großer Müggelsee only ), Rahn village and Müggelheim ( only smaller Müggelsee ) divide the lake among themselves.

The Müggelsee is part of the federal waterway Müggelspree ( MgS ) as a waterway class III, which belongs legally to the Spree - Oder waterway; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Berlin.

Geography

The lake extends over 7.4 square kilometers (maximum 4.3 km long, 2.6 km wide, which includes The benches in the East ) and up to eight feet deep. The lake and situated on the southern edge Müggelberge, with 115 meters the highest elevations in Berlin, originated during the Pleistocene. On the little Müggelberg the much visited today Müggelturm was built in 1961, which offers a far-reaching views over the lake and the woods up to the silhouette of Berlin.

By Müggelsee flows the River Spree, and is considered by Large potions, 4 km west of Prince forest, to Köpenick Müggelspree. Situated on the north bank of Köpenick waterworks Friedrich Hagen takes the lake much of its water. In addition, there are numerous deep wells near the shore that promote beside a small proportion groundwater mainly bank filtrate.

About 750 meters south of the Great Köpenick is the little Devil.

Name history

The first mentions of the word element " Müggel " found, according to Gerhard Schlimpert in the "Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis ": in 1394 as the Tyns in Miggel and 1487 as of the Miggelseh. The etymology remains unclear. The traditional derivation from the pre-Slavic Mogyla = grave, grave mound, mound has Schlimpert back as untenable. More likely is a pre-Slavic, Germanic origin of the Indo-European root migh, mighla = mist, cloud, including, for example, the Dutch miggelen = dust raining belong. The word ' home ' in the name of today's Berlin hamlet Müggelheim brought to Schlimperts analyzes around 1750 Palatine settlers in the area from the village from their home or home with.

History

Today's beach Müggelsee was built in 1929/30, according to the plans of Martin Wagner and Friedrich Hennings, after the old lido area was burnt down in September 1928.

On May 24, 1932 landed the flying boat Dornier Do X, the largest aircraft in the world at that time, after a two-year promotional flight through Europe and South and North America on the Müggelsee.

Recreational use and transport

The Müggelsee has especially for the eastern districts of Berlin, a high leisure and recreational value. But the beach is Müggelsee of more than 100,000 people a year visited (as of 2009). The Great Müggelsee is an inland waterway, it is the inland waterways order and the SBF inland is necessary (if the drive power exceeds 15 hp ), but the driving motor boats is permitted only on the fairway in the middle of the lake. Not machine- driven watercraft other hand, may tour the whole area of ​​the lake. In addition to the excursions and other ships of the Berlin observatory and Kreisschiffahrt operate on the east adjacent Müggelspree the ferry lines F23 and F24 of the Berlin Transport Authority.

On Müggelsee also include one each water rescue station of the DLRG ( Friedrich Hagen) and the ASB ( Rahn village) that are occupied in the summer months on weekends.

Trivia

In December 2013 received a hitherto unnamed, seeähnliches formations on Saturn's moon Titan, the name " Müggel Lacus ".