Lake Schwerin''Frommer's Germany 2006''
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013. () is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

, northern

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It was named after the city

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialect, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Low German: ''Swerin''; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Zwierzyn''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germ ...

, on its southwestern shore. The smaller town

Bad Kleinen Bad Kleinen (until 1915 Kleinen) is a municipality in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the north bank of the Schweriner See. Bad Kleinen is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Geograph ...

is on the north shore of the lake. Its surface is approximately , and its maximum depth is . The natural outflow of the lake is the (channelized) river

Stör The Stör () is a river in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Stör rises east of Neumünster, and flows west through Neumünster, Kellinghusen, and Itzehoe. The Stör joins the Elbe near Glücksta ...

, a tributary of the

Elde The Elde () is a river in northern Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a few km in Brandenburg), a right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Elde originates near Altenhof, south of Malchow. It first flows southeast towards the south ...

, and part of the

Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

watershed. The Wallensteingraben, a 16th-century canal, connects the lake with the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

Wismar Wismar (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar () is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city of Mecklenburg after Rostock, Schwerin and ...

Gallery

File:Schwerinersee.png , Map of

and its lakes, most dominantly the ''Lake Schwerin'' with its inner and outer lake area File:Germany schwerin aerial view ArM.jpg , Aerial view of Schwerin on the lakes File:Schwerin Castle Aerial View Island Luftbild Schweriner Schloss Insel See.jpg ,

Schwerin Castle Schwerin Castle (, also known as ''Schwerin Palace'', ( or ) is a 19th-century ''Schloss'' built in the historicist style located in the city of Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany. It is situated on an island in the ...

on its own island in the Lake Schwerin File:Landtagsprojekt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2013 by-RaBoe-249.jpg , Yachting Club at Lake Schwerin File:Schwerin Weisse Flotte Marstall 2009-10-20 016.jpg , White Fleet, cruiseships at the city's lakeshore File:Schwerin Zippendorf Strand 2012-07-02 031.JPG , Beach in Zippendorf, a district of Schwerin File:Morning View (6105598606).jpg , The ''Beutel'' area of Lake Schwerin File:Schwerin Schweriner See Beutel Marstallhalbinsel Sonnenaufgang (3094335309).jpg , Sunrise at the Marstall peninsula File:Stadtansicht vom Schweriner See 31052009.jpg , Schwerin seen from the Lake File:Turm-kaninchenwerder.jpg, Observation tower on ''Kaninchenwerder'', an island of Lake Schwerin File:Sunrise - 2010-10-25 (5113181443).jpg , Sunrise at Ziegelwerder island

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Federal waterways in Germany {{Schwerin-geo-stub