Stepenitz (Mecklenburg)

Stepenitz between mills and Eichsen Rüting

The Stepenitz is a right tributary of the Trave River in northwest Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, and in the city of Lübeck in Schleswig -Holstein.

River

The river rises northwest of Schwerin and the Neumühler lake at Brüsewitzer living space Eulenkrugstrasse and north of a ridge at about 49 m above sea level. NHN. From there it flows through the first Rehmsee and subsequently including the memory septic mill Cramoner the lake, the lake and the United Wendelstorfer Eichsener lake. Next to the northwest fluently, she takes in Börzow to the Radegast and four kilometers from the Maurine Dassow. The river section of Rüting to Dassow is characterized by meanders.

The Stepenitz opens just behind the bridge in the Dassower belonging already to Lübeck Dassower lake. This lake turn it reaches the Pötenitzer Wiek, a Travelodge Bay between the Priwall and Mecklenburg, where the Stepenitz opens about at sea level in the Travelodge; this in turn reaches a few hundred meters further north at the district of Lübeck Travemünde the Baltic Sea. The length of the river from its source to its mouth in the Dassower lake is 52 kilometers. The catchment area has a size of 701 km ².

Watershed

The headwaters of the Stepenitz lies on the North Sea and Baltic Sea watershed. While the Stepenitz in a northwesterly direction over the Trave to the Baltic Sea flows, the water reaches the brews, which rises only a few kilometers to the southwest and flows towards the southwest, across the Elbe River of the North Sea.

Stepenitzmündung in the Dassow Lake

History

The city of Lübeck waived by a statement from the February 16, 1887 compared to Mecklenburg to their sovereign powers on the Stepenitz. Until the early 20th century, the fishing rights of Stepenitz were below Börzow in the city of Lübeck.

The Stepenitz was formerly a border waters: on the left bank, the territory of the Bishopric of Ratzeburg, and later Principality of Ratzeburg was in part Duchy of Mecklenburg -Strelitz, and on the right bank part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin.

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