Wolziger See
The Wolziger Lake is a 597 acre lake in Brandenburg comprehensive district of Dahme -Spreewald in the Natural Park of Dahme- Heideseen and the largest lake in the municipality of Heidesee. On its banks are the eponymous district Wolzig and Blossin, Kolberg and Görsdorf. It is part of a good 33 -mile federal waterway Storkower waters ( SKG ) with the waterways of class I; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Berlin.
Description
The approximately circular lake has a diameter of about 3.2 km, the area is 579 hectares. The greatest depth is about 13 meters. It was created during the Ice Age and is located in a depression of the Berlin glacial valley.
The lake receives its inflow from Storkower channel in the northeast and southeast of the Mill Stream, which connects the Great Lakes Schauener chain with the Wolziger lake. Its outflow leads to the southwest by the channel- developed 1.35 km long flow Blossiner Long Lake and from there through the Dahme River Spree.
The shore is covered over long distances with reeds. The reason consists mostly of sand, but which is also interspersed with stones. It comprises a plurality of peaks and strongly sloping band edges. A striking part of the lake forms a reed island in the southern part of the lake. Prior to this island the band edge falls steeply from approximately 1 meter from 8 meters.
On Wolziger lake are five public ports:
- Fishing port on the west bank in Blossin Draft 2 meters
- Marina of youth education center on the west bank in Blossin Draft 2 meters
- Sportboothafen the Youth Training Centre Blossin on the west bank, draft 1.8 meters
- Erkner boathouse on the north shore in Wolzig, draft 1.5 meters
- Natural harbor on the south shore in Kolberg, draft 1.4 meters
Ersterwähnungen and naming
The water was first mentioned in 1514 in the reign Erbregister Beeskow as vf the lake woltzigk. The data compiled in by Adolph Friedrich Riedel Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis reproduced document contains section Woltzigk the statement:
"Item Valten Mertten is a fisherman judge vf the lake woltzigk, zue sees next to the Schultzen that it zuegehet right before he has frey fishing wade and Puferten. "
1518 can be found in Erbregister Beeskow the spelling auff the Woltziger ... and others can see and 1643 in a Storkower document, the specification on the Woltziger lake. According 's Brandenburg named Book of the lake The naming with the suffix - lsk - points according to name book it was formerly referred to as Blossiner See, for example, in the Royal Prussian Urmesstischblatt of 1844. Suggest that here the place name was transferred to the lake. The name of the first mentioned in 1443 as Wolzck place Wolzig leads the linguist and Slawist Reinhard E. Fischer back to the altsorbische importance for place where alders grow.