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The Dämeritzsee () 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 ...
located in
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and
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,
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. At an elevation of , its surface area is . It is located partly in the municipality of Erkner ( Oder-Spree district) and part in Rahnsdorf, a Berliner locality in Treptow-Köpenick district. The lake forms part of the course of the River Spree, and is the location of that river's confluence with the short Flakenfließ that flows out of the Flakensee. The reach of the Spree downstream to the Müggelsee is also known as the Müggelspree. The Muggelspree and the Flakenfließ are both navigable, and the lake is also linked to the nearby Seddinsee by the Gosen Canal. The lake sees considerable sightseeing and leisure traffic, and also forms a link in a commercial navigation route from the
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workings at Rüdersdorf, which reaches the Flakensee by a
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at Woltersdorf, and connects to the River Dahme and the Oder-Spree Canal via the Seddinsee.


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* LDameritzsee Lakes of Berlin Treptow-Köpenick Lakes of Brandenburg Oder-Spree Federal waterways in Germany {{Berlin-geo-stub