Templiner See

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Havelsee

The Lake Templin is part of a chain of large lakes in the area of ​​the middle Havel, extending from Niederneuendorfer lake in Berlin to the Great Zernsee behind Werder ( Havel ).

Description

The name derives from the village was Templin on the southeast shore of the lake and then named the peninsula with the forest pool Templin.

As part of the Potsdamer Havel, which belongs to the Lower Havel waterway, he has the status of a federal waterway waterway class IV; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Brandenburg.

With its parts Neustadt Havelbucht, front cap and rear cap Templin Lake is located in a glacial basin and is basically a broadening of the Havel. It extends from northeast to southwest and lies with its largest part in the municipality of the city of Potsdam. Only in a small area in its southern part, he belongs to the municipality Havel and borders on the district Caputh. The northeast end of the lake begins south of the Lustgarten Potsdam on the expansion of the Havel, about 230 m downstream of the crossing of the Berlin- Potsdam- Magdeburg Railway. The southwest end is not clearly demarcated, so ' 09 " north latitude and 12 ° 59' 46" east longitude is here the narrowing of the Havel before Caputh at about 52 ° 21 accepted.

The one with the ship must be passed length is approximately 6.63 kilometers, measured in a straight line, however, only 5.83 km. Various peninsulas and islands cause several bottlenecks in Lake Templin. From the south-east anvil -like towers Hermannswerder or Küssel peninsula in the lake. The resulting bays hot toe in the Northeast and rear cap to the southwest. Since the front and rear cap are connected by the " Jews ditch ," Hermann Werder and Küssel theoretically to the island.

The northern part of the lake is dominated by the present peninsula and former island "Lower Planitz " as well as the island of "Upper Planitz ".

About the Lower Planitz the route of the " Berlin- Magdeburg Railway " runs. The north of the Lower Planitz situated part of Lake Templin called New Town Havelbucht. Through the widest part of the lake, a 90 m wide, 1,170 m long and 10 m high embankment was thrown to the closure of the Berlin outer ring in the 1950s. He locked the lower, southwestern third almost completely. A mere 150 m wide passage allows the connection between the Seeteilen.

The bottleneck in the amount Küssel and the road On the Peewitt is only about 110 m to the south of the site of the Military History Institute about 190 m wide. The maximum width of Lake Templin is 1.17 km.

The largest part of the lake shore in the northeast area of Lake Templin is characterized by the Potsdam city center and the districts of Brandenburg suburb, suburban and Teltower Templin suburb. Remarkable are here, especially in the bays, many jetties. The lakeshore areas outside the villages are surrounded by forest. On the northwest shore grows on a flat ground moraine of deciduous mixed forest of Pirschheide and the entgegengestzen Lakefront, after the rise of a set-back high bank, grows predominantly pine mixed forest. The lido Templin, which is named after the Dorfwüstung, located south of the above-mentioned railway embankment at this bank. In the immediate vicinity of the forester's house Templin is located.

Near the lodge Gaisberg in the Pirschheide on the northwest shore of the International Convention Center Seminar SeeHotel Potsdam, Sanssouci - Gaisberg the campsite and the Olympic Centre Potsdam and Landesbausparkasse Brandenburg. Here is the Congress Hotel Potsdam on Lake Templin also, which was built where once Graf von Zeppelin built his airships. Between the Potsdam Brandenburg suburban and urban areas Hermannswerder runs every fifteen minutes a passenger ferry.