The Holy Lake in Potsdam
Friday, 16 October 2015 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Berlin
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Heiliger See, with Marble Palace © Matthias v.d. Elbe/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Heiliger See (English:
Holy Lake ) is a lake within the city limits of
Potsdam , located northeast of the city center and bordering the historic park known as the
New Garden . Together with the lakes
Sacrower See and
Groß Glienicker See to the north it forms a chain of lakes resulting from a glacial tunnel valley. The lake is 1.33 km long and 300 metres wide on average.
Because of its picturesque location amidst the historic parks and palaces of Potsdam, with the Marmorpalais on its west shore and Cecilienhof near the north shore, the lake is a popular goal for excursions and has an attractive residential area on its eastern shore.
Heiliger See, with Marble Palace © Matthias v.d. Elbe/cc-by-sa-3.0
On the north shore there are informal places for swimming and sunbathing, as well as a connection to Lake
Jungfernsee and thus to the
Havel River’s extensive network of waterways via the Hasengraben, a short canal where the water is kept dammed up to maintain a high water level for the lake. This is done to keep the wooden piles on which the Marmorpalais is built from being exposed to the air and drying out.
The lake suffers from an overload of biomass, especially from falling leaves which are decomposed by bacteria on the shallow bottom, depleting the lake of oxygen in the process. In summertime the depths can be virtually without oxygen, causing
dead ecological zones .
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