The Großer Müllroser See is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located in the district

Oder-Spree Oder-Spree is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from north clockwise) the district Märkisch-Oderland, the district-free city Frankfurt (Oder), Poland, the districts Spree-Neiße and Dahme-Spree ...

between the town

Müllrose Müllrose ''(Lower Sorbian: Miłoraz)'' is a town in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Oder-Spree Canal, 15 km southwest of Frankfurt (Oder). A part of the city is located in the Schlaube Valley Nature ...

in the north and the municipality Mixdorf in the south. The lake covers an area of 1,32 km². At an elevation of 41,6 m, its depth is maximal 8 m. Großer Müllroser See 6

The lake is the largest water in the Schlaube Valley Nature Park and flown through by the river

Schlaube The Schlaube is a river in the district Oder-Spree, Brandenburg, Germany. It is in the Schlaube Valley Nature Park and flows more than through the Schlaube-Valley (German: Schlaubetal), a tunnel valley of the last glacial period. Its source ...

, which runs over a distance of 20 kilometers through the Schlaube-Valley (German: Schlaubetal), a

tunnel valley A tunnel valley is a U-shaped valley originally cut under the glacial ice near the margin of continental ice sheets such as that now covering Antarctica and formerly covering portions of all continents during past glacial ages. They can be as l ...

of the last glacial period. An approximately 9 kilometres long walking path leads around the lake. At the eastern and western shore there are public lidos/beaches, one of them with a diving tower. On the sea are operating some passenger ships. The

watermill A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of ...

Müllrose at the northern shore was first mentioned in a document in 1275 and is still in use today.Hermann Trebbin: ''Müllrose - Aus den Schicksalen und Kämpfen einer märkischen Landstadt.'' Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1934. Hrsg.: Stadt Müllrose, Verlag Die Furt, Jacobsdorf 2003, .

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Lakes of Brandenburg Oder-Spree {{Brandenburg-geo-stub