Müritz

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Largest inner German lake

The Müritz ( [my ʁɪts ː ], from Slavic morcze = " small sea " ) is a lake in the Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg Lake District, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. It is the largest lake that is entirely within Germany. ( Lake Constance is larger, but have at it also Austria and Switzerland shares. )

The entire Müritz is part of the federal waterway Müritz- Elde waterway with waterway class I; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Lauenburg.

To the east of the lake adjacent to the Müritz National Park, Germany's largest terrestrial national park.

Geography

Structure

The Müritz basin can be divided into several large bays. Compared to the flat eastern part of the lake, the west side is divided by trough- like depressions as the Röbeler and Sietower bay. The Binnenmüritz is located on the city goods in the north of the lake with the deepest point of the lake ( -31 m), which has only a narrow connection to the main basin of Lake Müritz. South of the lake is the little Müritz, from the branches to the south of the Müritzarm with the Müritzsee at its end. The extension in north-south direction is about 29 km, in east-west direction about 13 km. The Müritz has a catchment area of approximately 663 km ². The Müritz is traversed by the Elde from south to north and has the Binnenmüritz over the two kilometer long Reeckkanal (also Eldenburger channel) connection west to Kölpinsee. Since they also eastward across the Mirow channel which is part of the Müritz- Havel waterway, and the Bolter channel as well as on subsequent chains because the Havel lakes fed, it has become artificially to a bifurkierenden waters.

Formation

The Müritz created during the last ice age between the Pomeranian and the Frankfurt Stadium. Originally, the entire Mecklenburg Lake District was a great lake, which was divided as a result of Seespiegelabsenkung into several smaller lakes connected.

Water level

The water level of Lake Müritz was changed several times in the past centuries, especially by human intervention. She lay originally in the 12th century still at 60.5 meters above sea level, so the water was dammed for the operation of mills, among others in the course of Eldeabflusses in several positive and negative steps up to 64.35 meters in 1737. Already in 1739 the mill dam was lowered again to 1.51 meters. In the course of two Elderegulierungen and two further changes of the mill traffic jams, the water level in 1836 was at 62 m above sea level. NN at the present level.

National park

In 1990, the Müritz National Park was designated as a protected area 318 sq km area on the eastern shore of Lake Müritz, which in places has a unique flora and fauna. Here Fell cattle and sheep Gotland are used for park maintenance. As conservation areas are the peninsulas Big Schwerin and Steinhorn and reported their environment in the Southwest and the Müritz part shore at Rechlin in the southeast of the lake. With the exception of the areas covered by the National Park small water area in the east of the Müritz Müritz is the entire conservation area.

Flora

The particular shape of the Müritz causes it to only one east and one west bank are basically. The riparian zones in the West are characterized by meadows, small woods and curving on rolling hills fields. On the east side is one part of the national park to the shore area. Here are mostly wet thickets, swamp forest and reed zones find. Extensive pine forests follow.

Towns

The largest city on Lake Müritz is Waren (Müritz). Other places are (clockwise) Rechlin, Priborn, Vipperow, Ludorf, Robel / Müritz, Gotthun, Sietow and Klink.

Part waters and contiguous waters

The lake itself is called Müritz and not Müritzsee, this is merely a historical name. The actual Müritzsee closes south of the Müritzarm. The Müritz has the following part waters or sections:

• Binnenmüritz, the northern part of the lake in Waren (Müritz),
• Sietower Bay,
• Röbeler lake and
• Zähnerlank in the West,
• Small Müritz between Rechlin and Vipperow and
• Müritzarm in the south, one of the Elde is flowing through the very narrow section of the lake at Priborn, south of Priborn opens the Elde in the Müritz,
• Müritzsee of the Eldeeinmündung to Buchholz, where the Müritz- Elde waterway begins.

Adjacent waters:

• The Müritz lake flows in the north- west the Elde in the Kölpinsee
• In the Müritz National Park in the east of the Müritz: Feisneck, Rederangsee and Specker lake
• Also in the east the old drive to Havel (via Bolter channel Caarpsee, Woterfitzsee, Leppinsee, The Moessel, Great and Little Kotzower lake, Granzow Möschen and Lake Mirow Mirow )
• From the Little Müritz branches of Mirow channel as New drive to Havel to Mirow from