Schlaube

The Ragower mill in Schlaubetal

The Schlaube ( Lower Žłobja ) is a river in eastern Brandenburg and flows through the suppression Uber attachments. Documented the Schlaube was already in 1275 and 1336 mentioned as Slube. Other spellings are found: 1370 Slûbe, 1471 Inn of Slawenn, 1516 and 1570 schlube auff the Schlaube or 1751 Schlubbe. Probably comes the basic form of the name of the altsorbischen Slubníca. However, it is not clear whether there has been an influence in the naming of a flow, which is now called the Old Schlaube.

Formation

The Schlaubetal emerged from a meltwater channel under the ice about 21,000 years ago during the Weichsel glaciation. Numerous remaining in the gutter Toteisblöcke led with their melting out at the end of the Ice Age to the emergence of the chain of lakes that characterizes today's Schlaubetal.

Course

In the south of the Wirchensees located Wirchenbergen two springs rise small rivulets, which unite in the Wirchenwiesen. As Schlaube the river winds over a length of about 14 miles through some steep, up to 30 meters deep ravines.

In its 20 km in the long run it flows through the Wirchensee, east of Ziskensee past in the Great Treppelsee, the Hammersee, the little Schinkensee, the Great Schinkensee, the Langesee, the schoolroom water on Belenzsee past to which you are connected. Then the Schlaube reached the Great Müllroser lake and flows into the Müllroser Kiez in the Lesser Müllroser lake.

Environment

Along the river course there are some mills that today mainly serve the tourism. Almost the entire river to waste Rose is a nature reserve and part of the 1995 proclaimed Schlaubetal Nature Park.