Rheinsberg Lake Region
The Rheinberger Lake District with its many large and small lakes located in a varied, hilly forests between the villages of Rheinberg, Menz and Fürstenberg / Havel. It is the southern part of the Neustrelitzer small lakes area, but has no natural connection to the north adjacent waters. By Wolf Brucher channel lock the Rheinberger Lakes region is connected via the Müritz- Havel waterway and the Upper Havel waterway with the Neustrelitzer small lakes area. It drained by the Rhine south to Havel and south by the Ruppin Switzerland. The majority of the area is part of the Natural Park Stechlin - Ruppin country. Known in 1938 founded " nature reserve Stechlin ".
The most important lakes
The most famous lake of Rheinberger Lakes area is the Stechlinsee. Other major lakes that belong to Rheinberger Lake District: Braminsee, Nehmitzsee, Big Prebelowsee, Rheinberger lake, Roofensee, Black Lake, Tietzowsee, Big Wummsee, Big Zechliner lake and Zootzensee.
Rheinberger and Zechliner waters
Within the Rheinberger 's lake region 1876-1881 the chains of lakes Rheinberger waters were (RBG ) and Zechliner waters ( CPB ) made navigable about 21 miles long and connected via the lock Wolf break at the Müritz - Havel waterway.
The Rheinberger waters branch off in small Pälitzsee from the Müritz- Havel waterway. At the Pälitzbrücke - the former border between Mecklenburg -Strelitz and Prussia, now the border between the states of Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania and Brandenburg - starts the not quite three -kilometer-long lock channel with the lock Wolf fraction ( GDR times: Cabin channel, from 1998: Wolf Brucher channel). It follows the Great Prebelowsee, the short Prebelowkanal, the Tietzowsee, the 900 -meter hut channel (also Jagowkanal ), the Schlabornsee and of the 1.5 -kilometer-long suppression Born canal, the Great Rheinberger lake and the 800 -meter-long Rheinberger channel and the Grienericksee up to its south end at kilometer 13,25. The Rheinberger waters also include the branching from the Schlabornsee southwest Dollgowkanal with Dollgowsee with three kilometers in length. Until 1990, the branching from the Schlabornsee east Bikowkanal with Bikowsee belonged with length of 1.5 kilometers to the Rheinberger waters.
From the Tietzowsee branch off to the west, the Zechliner waters with brief Zootzenkanal, the Zootzensee, the 1.8-kilometer Repenter channel, the Great Zechliner lake, the short Zechliner channel and the Black Sea ( also Zechliner Small Lake ) to its southwest end at kilometer 8.49.
Rheinberger waters and waters were Zechliner Prussian waters, only from 1921 to 1924 they were Reich waterways. From 1990 they are federal waterways and count from 1998 to the so-called other inland waterways of the covenant. Responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Eberswalde.
Geology
The Rheinberger Lakes area belongs genesis historically the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburgisch -Brandenburg Lake District ).
The area lies between the Moränenzügen the Frankfurt Season and the Pomeranian stage of Weichselkaltzeit and originated about 12,000 years ago in the stream valleys and Sandern the Pomeranian stage during this ice age. It has a relatively turbulent conditions for Brandenburg relief. There are flat outwash plains, undulating ground moraines and end moraines elongated. In between are the channels and kettle holes. Natural aboveground inflows and outflows do not have these lakes mostly. They were later partially connected by channels.
Climate
The climate differs from the area due to the relief of the many lakes and the surrounding area. There are many cold air Islands available. The cold air collects in hollows and overall it is colder than the surrounding area. Often, early and late frosts. The mean total precipitation is 563 mm ( Rheinberg ) is relatively high. High humidity and low summer average temperatures characterize the climate.
Vegetation
The forests in this area are very varied. The forests of the potentially natural forest communities include beech and beech- oak forests grapes. Today outweigh pine and pine mixed forests. In smaller valleys and hollows are today kettle Moore.
Others
The area was also known by the mention in the " walks through the Mark Brandenburg" by Theodor Fontane.