Lake Schwerin

Lake Schwerin (Schweriner See)
Location	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Coordinates	53°38′N 11°28′E / 53.633°N 11.467°ECoordinates: 53°38′N 11°28′E / 53.633°N 11.467°E
Type	eutrophic
Primary outflows	Wallensteingraben, Stör Canal
Basin countries	Germany
Max. length	21 km (13 mi)
Max. width	6 km (3.7 mi)
Surface area	61.54 km^2 (23.76 sq mi)
Average depth	12.8 m (42 ft)
Max. depth	52.4 m (172 ft)
Residence time	10.1 years
Surface elevation	37.6 m (123 ft)
Settlements	Schwerin, Bad Kleinen

Lake Schwerin^[1][2] (German: Schweriner See) is a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. It was named after the city Schwerin, on its southwestern shore. The smaller town Bad Kleinen is on the north shore of the lake. Its surface is approximately 61.54 square kilometres (23.76 sq mi), and its maximum depth is 52.4 metres (172 ft). The natural outflow of the lake is the (channelized) river Stör, a tributary of the Elde, and part of the Elbe watershed. The Wallensteingraben, a 16th-century canal, connects the lake with the Baltic Sea at Wismar.

Gallery

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  Map of Schwerin and its lakes, most dominantly the Lake Schwerin with its inner and outer lake area
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  Aerial view of Schwerin on the lakes
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  Schwerin Castle on its own island in the Lake Schwerin
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  Yachting Club at Lake Schwerin
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  White Fleet, cruiseships at the city's lakeshore
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  Beach in Zippendorf, a district of Schwerin
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  The Beutel are of Lake Schwerin
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  Sunrise at the Marstall peninsula
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  Schwerin seen from the Lake
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  Observation tower on Kaninchenwerder, an island of Lake Schwerin
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  Sunrise at Ziegelwerder island

References

1. Kohl, Horst; Marcinek, Joachim and Nitz, Bernhard (1986). Geography of the German Democratic Republic, VEB Hermann Haack, Gotha, p. 49. ISBN 978-3-7301-0522-1.
2. Frommer's Germany 2006 by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.

External links

• Media related to Schweriner See at Wikimedia Commons
• Nixdorf, B.; et al. (2004), "Schweriner See" (PDF), Dokumentation von Zustand und Entwicklung der wichtigsten Seen Deutschlands (in German), Berlin: Umweltbundesamt, p. 265