Wakenitz

thumb|left|Gardens at the Wakenitz's eastern bank in Lübeck The Wakenitz ( Middle Low German Wakenisse ) is a river in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein and at the border to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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River.name: Wakenitz
River.image: Luebeck Braun-Hogenberg.jpg
River.image_caption: Historical sight of the Wakenitz and Lübeck by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg (between 1572 and 1618)
River.source1_location: Ratzeburger See
River.mouth_location: Trave
River.subdivision_type1: Country
River.subdivision_name1: Germany
River.subdivision_type2: States

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Instance of: river
Country: Germany
Located in: Nordwestmecklenburg District
Image: WakenitzBeiRotenhusen.jpg
Length: 15

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Commons category: Wakenitz
mouth of the watercourse: Trave
origin of the watercourse: Ratzeburger See
time of earliest written record: 1200-00-00
Commons gallery: Wakenitz
watershed area: 455

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thumb|left|Gardens at the Wakenitz's eastern bank in Lübeck The Wakenitz ( Middle Low German Wakenisse ) is a river in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein and at the border to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The Wakenitz's source is the Ratzeburger See in Ratzeburg. It is about long and drains into the Trave in Lübeck. The majority of its eastern bank forms the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. After the end of World War II this river formed part of the Iron Curtain between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The Wakenitz drains an area of about .

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wakenitz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.