Ziernsee

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The Ziernsee is one belonging to the Mecklenburg Lake District lake in the municipality of Priepert in the district Mecklenburg Lake District. It is located at kilometer 68.0 of the 97 -kilometer Upper Havel Waterway ( OHW ) and is part of the federal waterway waterway class I; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Eberswalde.

The maximum dimensions are approximately 2.2 km from southwest to northeast and half a mile from northwest to southeast. The water area occupies about 1.1 square kilometers. In the northeast of Zerlingsee borders, has a small, overgrown with water lilies lake, the pronounced Verlandungsszonen. On the wooded north shore there are two campgrounds.

South shore and the east bank form the border of the state of Brandenburg. Near the shore of the southern bay are the Fürstenberger districts Kleinmenow and onion field. About the channel- developed Havel, which also represents the drain, you get to Menowsee, after Steinförde and to Fürstenberg / Havel. In the west you reach the adjacent Ellbogensee over which the Havel flows, and thus after Priepert and on about the Müritz - Havel waterway after punishment.