Schloonsee

The Schloonsee is situated in the municipality of Heringsdorf on Usedom Island in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald lake. It is located east of the town Bansin and north of the federal highway 111 The municipal road from the lakeside resort Heringsdorf to Heringsdorf leads close to the north shore of the lake. The lake has an approximate length of 750 meters, a width of 400 meters and an average depth of 3 meters. The lake was created as all the lakes on the island of Usedom in the last ice age.

In the years 1978 and 1979 there was a reorganization of the lake. In 1981, geological investigations were carried out on the south bank of the Schloonsees. When drilling a natural gas deposit was discovered with an estimated capacity of 9 million cubic meters in 3900 meters depth. The large amount of hydrogen sulfide gas in the mixture would have but for a promotion means a high level of technical and financial resources, so that the regime refrained. After the GDR in the possession of the deposit located, now privatized oil / natural gas Gommern GmbH (EEG ) was sold by the trustee to the French company Gaz de France. The EEG applied for 1996 funding approval for the natural gas. The project, which provided for a daily production of one million tons, came around with widespread rejection. In 2002, the state government of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern finally gave gas extraction a rejection because the tourism in the region, particularly in the imperial baths greatest priority was given.