Röggeliner See

The Röggeliner Lake is a lake in Schaalsee in northwest Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.

Description

The jointed shallow lake located predominantly in the municipality in the district of Carlow North West Mecklenburg. On the north shore is the place Klockstorf, on the southern and south-eastern shore borders the municipality Dechow with the places Dechow and Röggelin. Only a small part of the lake including a small, planted with deciduous forest island belongs to the municipality of Dechow. Another, covered with mixed forest island in the middle of the lake, a Reed passed near the northwestern shore. The lake has maximum dimensions of 2.24 times 1.16 km. The average depth is 2.9 meters. The deepest point is 6.8 meters in the Eastern Bay. Access to the lake exist in the villages Klocksdorf and the northern area of ​​Dechow. In both places there are swimming holes and jetties. However, the main access to the lake is the boat launch fishing village south Klock of Klock village. There is also a car park and a lookout tower.

The result are the lake and adjoining the west Kuhlrader Moor by Toteishohlformen who remained after the Pomeranian maximum advance of the Weichsel ice age by melting of the glacier. The basin, located in the lake and marsh, was originally no outlet. The lake is fed by several trenches. The catchment area is about 16 km ². To the north of the lake flows initially piped from about Schoor Beck towards Stover Mill creek and Maurine.

The majority of the lake, adjacent shore and the Kuhlrader Moor belong to the nature reserve Kuhlrader Moor and Röggeliner lake, which is part of the biosphere reserve Schaalsee. As early as 1956 were set surfaces in this area under protection, extensions, there were in 1967 and 1972 today. (As of 2003), it has a size of 328 hectares. Protective purpose is the preservation and the development of nutrient-poor shallow lake and the largely ausgetorften and nutrient-poor Kuhlrader Moores. The lake is classified moderately eutrophic.

On the large island located in the lake is since 1992 a cormorant colony, which is clearly visible to the dead Horst trees whose trunks are whitewashed from the feces of birds. 1996 were counted 171 breeding pairs.

On the peninsula in the lake at Röggelin was in the Middle Ages, the greatest knight's castle of the Bishopric of Ratzeburg. According to legend, the stones of the castle said to have been related to the year 1480 for the construction of the foundation of the village church Demern.