Schwinge (Peene)

Swing south of Pustow, looking towards the flow direction.

The swingarm is an approximately 24 kilometer long creek in Western Pomerania and a left tributary of the Peene.

Geography

The rocker springs west of Behrenhoff. It proceeds in a northeasterly direction and turns in Busdorf to the northwest. From Busdorf it flows through a several hundred meter wide moist lowland. In its further course it traverses in a south-westerly direction at an erosion valley Kames a hilly landscape. This valley was created as a result of melting ice at the end of the Weichsel glaciation as subglacial transverse valley. Due to the higher initial melt water amounts to kolkartige wells and meander formed. Later Moore, who, as measurements at the beginning of the 20th century were, grew up to ten meters emerged. East of the city Loitz opens the valley of the swingarm in the glacial valley of Ibitzgraben. Due to its flat fen landscape and the Peene valley it flows in a south-easterly direction for a distance of about 2.5 kilometers to the mouth of the Peene.

History

In a document of the Duke Casimir II of 1219 Bach was mentioned as "aqua molendini " (Mill waters). The mention of a " Zwinga " took place in 1248 in a deed of the Duke Wartislaw III. of Pomerania - Demmin in the description of the boundaries of the monastery of Hilda with the goods of the knights economic families of Behr and Blixen. 1248 a water mill at Dersekow and another at Subzow was called, in 1280 was reported by five mills on the swingarm. For the operation of water mills, the rocker was dammed. The names of the local documents Mühlenkamp and Schopp mill denote former mill sites in the lower reaches of the stream.

In 1990, the protected status of the middle and lower valley as a nature reserve Schwingetal and Peene Meadows at Trantow was.