Woezer See

Part of the nature reserve Schaalsee landscape, FFH

The Woezer lake is a river flowing through it from the shields lake on the territory of the municipality in the district of Wittendörp Ludwigslust - Parchim in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The lake is located half a kilometer southwest of the eponymous hamlet Wittendörper Woez in a bog. The district Döbbersen is 250 meters away to the west bank. In the north, the shields flows into the lake and leaves again in the southwest. In addition, several trenches feed the waters. Another drain forms the Duesterbeck that occurs in the east of the lake, however, leads to the shields after a few kilometers. About shields, Schaale, brews and Elbe, the water is finally discharged into the North Sea. The lake has a maximum dimension of 1342 times 686 meters and a size of 57 hectares. The height of the water level is 35.1 m above sea level. NHN.

From the birth of her polytroph classified and shallow lake is a Rinnensee. He has a perfect landing areas in the form of profound fen, carr and reed strips, which almost completely surrounded him. Only the northeast, grassland follows, from here is used by the bathers and anglers lake accessible.

Due to severe silting the waters with an average depth of 1.1 meters, very shallow and polymictic. On the basis of inputs from agriculture, it has high nutrient concentrations.

The Woezer lake and its surroundings are part of the 7070 acre nature preserve " Schaalsee landscape " and part of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Conservation Area " Schaaletal with tributaries and nearby forests and bogs " ( EU number DE 2531-304 ).