Randow

In the North: in Eggesin in the Uecker53.69039214.065440Koordinaten: 53 ° 41 ' 25 " N, 14 ° 3' 56" E 53 ° 41 ' 25 " N, 14 ° 3' 56 " O53.69039214.065440

The Randow is a river in the east of the North German Plain, which is fed by lateral tributaries and marshes at both ends and has a mouth. The stretch of water between the two estuaries is 68 km. The water level in the apex region is 12.5 m above sea level. NHN.

In Slavic settlement time, inter alia, was by Löcknitz flowing Randow as " Lochnitza " ( Slavic for "River of puddles ", " quagmire " or " pit lowland " ) referred. In a deed of 1216, the river was mentioned for the first time with this name, one more time in 1288 in a document which describes the limits of Uckermark. For the river the name Randow sat down in 1700 by then however.

The apex region is located between Schmölln (municipality Randowtal ) and Grünz (city Penkun ). From here the water flows from both the north and south. One can therefore speak of a Pseudobifurkation.

• To the south the Randow flows to the river catfish, 35 km downstream from its source lake and 17 km above its confluence with the Hohensaaten- Friedrichsthaler waterway, an artificial parallel arm of the Oder.
• To the north it flows past by the county Vorpommern - Greifswald Löcknitz and Eggesin, where it flows just outside Eggesin in the Uecker, which in turn empties itself a few kilometers downstream in Ueckermuende in the Szczecin Lagoon ( Oderhaff ).

The Randow runs in a glacial valley, the wet ground is called Randowbruch. Near Löcknitz this valley is somewhat narrow, forming a strategically important for centuries ford to cross the river further downstream it is then on again. At the widest part of Pomerania between Eggesin and Gumnitz was a bridge that was replaced in the late 19th century by a drawbridge before the Thirty Years War. The current bridge at this location is of concrete.

From 1905 began land reclamation, the dry laid the northern Randowbruch ( between Gorkov and hunters Brück ). Through several ditches so the floor could be drained quickly in the spring. Even today the Randowbruch is still crisscrossed by many drainage ditches. Also known is the so-called peat mounds at Retzin. Here is impressive to see and read how the local farmers in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Moor of Randowaue wrest fertile grazing land.

Upper Pomerania and catfish traditionally formed the border between Brandenburg and Pomerania. At about 20 kilometers, the Randow is today the border between the counties of Vorpommern - Greifswald in Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania and Brandenburg Uckermark. The names of the counties formed in 1994 in the district reforms relate to the river names " Ucker " or " Uecker " and " Randow ".