Templiner See () 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 ...
in the state of
Brandenburg
Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a States of Germany, state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It is the List of Ger ...
,
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 stretches to the south and west from the centre of the city of
Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the Havel, River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
.
The lake is some long, with a maximum width of and a surface area is . It lies at an elevation of above sea level, and has a maximum depth of .
The navigable
River Havel flows through the lake, entering it at its northern end adjacent to central Potsdam, and leaving it at its southern end via a short channel to the
Schwielowsee between
Caputh and
Geltow. The lake is crossed by two
cable ferries, the
Kiewitt Ferry towards its northern end, and the
Caputh Ferry at its southern exit. Navigation is administered as part of the
Untere Havel–Wasserstraße.
At the northern end of the lake, the peninsula of
Hermannswerder protrudes into the lake. At about its midpoint, the lake is crossed by the
Berlin outer ring railway, using an embankment and bridge. This was built in the 1950s, to bypass
West Berlin
West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1 ...
during the
division of Germany.
Albert Einstein Summer Home
From 1929 to 1932
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...
and his wife Elsa, then living in Berlin, had a summer house by the lake in
Caputh. He kept a sail boat at the lake and sailed on the Templiner See and the Havel river lakes.
See also
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Villa Carlshagen
References
External links
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Lakes of Brandenburg
Geography of Potsdam
Federal waterways in Germany
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