Schlatbach

Fischweg at Gramzower mill

Near bridge ... Gramzow Mill

The 20 -kilometer Schlatbach, formerly Slaatbach, is a right tributary of the Stepenitz in the Brandenburg region Prignitz.

Course

The creek originates below the terminal moraine of the nature reserve Ruhner mountains around 9 kilometers west of Putlitzstrasse between the villages Grenzheim and Hülsebeck, both of which belong to the Official Putlitzstrasse Mountains. On its course to the south through consistently rural embossed area of ​​the Prignitz Schlatbach touch any city. It flows through the town Pirow, leaves the village Reetz the community Gülitz - Reetz on the right and flows through the villages Gulow (municipality Groß Pankow ) and Great Linde (city pearl mountain). A few hundred meters southeast of Great Linde and around 3 kilometers northeast of Mount Pearl opens the water-rich stream in the Stepenitz, which is a right tributary of the Elbe.

Demolition of weirs

The Schlatbach is a largely unspoilt and semi-natural stream, which in the renaturation in connection with the so-called program Elblachs 2000 plays an important role. The project of Brandenburg aims salmon and sea trout in the river Elbe and its tributaries to resettle. The measures the Stepenitzsystem plays a central function. A means of restoration of rivers consists of the dismantling of dams and weirs.

In Schlatbach a weir near the bridge Gramzower mill ( local situation in pearl mountain between Gulow and Great Linde ) was in 2001 replaced by a Sohlgleite that overcomes a height difference of nearly 2 meters. Here, a pelvic structure was made with stone bars that allow fish in the summer low-water migration. In the upper and lower waters of the Glide also artificial spawning sites have been created by the introduction of coarse gravel.

Issued back in 2000, a dismantling of the mill weir United Linde to a Sohlgleite.

105,000 Meerforellenbrütlinge put the country until 2005, a total of at Schlatbach. As success is recognized that since 2002 130 salmon and 173 sea trout have returned to spawn in the Stepenitzsystem (as of 2008 ).

Nature reserve Schlatbach

Am Bach the most strictly protected otter are (Lutra lutra ), kingfisher (Alcedo attis ), gray wagtails (Motacilla cinerea), Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus ) and cranes (Grus grus ) at home. 2006, the regulation on the conservation area Schlatbach was adopted.