Rhin
Havel (dark blue) and Rhin ( blue-green)
The 129 km long Rhin is a right tributary of the Havel and the catchment area of 1,780 km ², its third largest.
Name
The Rhin received according to popular opinion its name from settlers from the Lower Rhine area in the course of colonization in the 12th century. An independent Germanic form of the same root word for " run, flow" but can not be excluded. Although the environment of the river was several centuries inhabited by Slavs, a Slavic name is not known. In contrast, the Rhin at the headwaters has several small tributaries, which are also called Rhin.
River
The river rises about 8.5 kilometers west of Rheinberg in Brandenburg Ostprignitz - Ruppin. There, its source lies on the southern edge of the lake district in the Rheinberger Lake District just a few hundred meters west of the small settlement Wallitz. From there, the Rhine flows through several small and large lakes ( Brahmin, Kagar, Dollgow, suppression Born, Rheinberger and Grienericksee ) to Rheinberg. This more traditional version preclude scientific research, according to which the Rhin in Twernsee, about twelve kilometers north- west of the Rhine mountain rises and flows over the Giesenschlagsee, Zootzensee and Tietzowsee in the Schlabornsee.
Many of the northern lakes of the Rheinberg area lakes are connected via various navigable channels with each other and with the Rhin. The wolf Brucher channel (from 1998 to GDR times hut channel) represents the Great Prebelowsee the Little Pälitzsee a connection to the Müritz- Havel waterway ago.
The Rhin is included in the so-called other inland waterways of the Federal Rheinberger waters with Tietzowsee, Schlabornsee, Rheinberger lake and Grienericksee as well as in the Zechliner waters with the Zootzensee.
South of Rheinberg flows through the Rhine as of natural, meandering stream whitewater Ruppin Switzerland in a tortuous and stocked with black alder forests Rivervale south and then bends at the small settlement Zippelsförde from the northwest. A little later his water enters the Zermützelsee and then head south on the Tietzen and Molchowsee Neuruppin, Lake Ruppin and the Bützsee.
From the southeast end of the Bützsees to Kremmener Rhin is the name Rhin " Bützrhin ". It flows to the southeast. From the end of the Bützrhins, the water of the Rhins, regulated by weirs, both westward in its further natural flow direction as age Rhin accrue through the Rhinluch the lower Havel, as well as via the Kremmener Rhin and the Ruppin and Oranienburger channel to the east in the upper Havel can be passed at Oranienburg.
The Kremmener Rhin flows since the construction of the Ruppin waterway in the opposite direction as the former natural flow in his place, the lake to the Kremmener Rhin towards dehydrated.
The Old Rhine flows from the bifurcation of the Bützrhins first as a winding river towards Fehrbellin. Until the lock Hakenberg its water level is about one meter above the surrounding meadows and up to two meters above the water level of the drainage ditches. West of the lock first open the Fehrbellinerplatz channel and then the Wustrauer Rhin in the Old Rhin. The Wustrauer Rhin is an artificial channel. It starts right at Lake Ruppin. From Fehrbellin the Rhinwasser flows mainly through the Rhinkanal after Rhinow. This introduces another age Rhin, named further east Friesacker Rhin, water from the northeastern part of the Havelländisches lynx east of Friesack to. From Rhinow only Rhin -called arm flows through the Gülper lake in the Havel. In addition Rhinwasser can pass through the Bültgraben and the New Dosse in the Havel. Havel water in turn is the Rhin over the Havelländisches Great main channel fed drains the Havelländische Luch, but is fed by the Nauen - Paretzer channel with water from the Havel Havel canal.
Geology and hydrogeology
The Rhin used to its headwaters (from the Giesenschlagsee ) an old früheiszeitliche groove which extends from the east Woterfitzsee the Müritz over a length of 60 kilometers to the Rhinluch. This channel can not be held responsible in a mostly hilly moraine landscape that the low-water Rhin ever reaches its lower reaches. Years ago, about 18,000 north of Neuruppin meltwater streams created two deep trough valleys in southern and south-easterly direction, the zuschwemmten the southern part of the older gutter valley with deposits. After drying up of tributaries of the Rhine took over these valleys for its further course, whereby the two-time kinking of the river can be explained. South of the lakes Neuruppiner the Rhin for the purpose of drainage of the surrounding Luchlandschaften was expanded a channel and is barely detectable as a wild river. The connection between the Rhine and the Havel Oranienburg on the Kremmener Rhin and the Ruppin channel is not original, but was created in the 18th century.
Smuggle
- Lock Altruppin, Ruppin waterway in Altruppin, Neuruppin
- Lock Altfriesack, Ruppin waterway in Altfriesack, Fehrbellin
- Lock Hakenberg, Fehrbellinerplatz waterway in Hakenberg, Fehrbellin
- Kahn lock Gahlberg in Strodehne, Havelaue