Orankesee
Sign in to saveOrankesee is a lake in Berlin, Germany. Its surface area is . The Orankesee is a lake without inflow or outflow. Together with the nearby Obersee lake, it forms the center around which the Hohenschönhausen villa quarter developed. The Orankesee belongs to a chain of glacial lakes that extends from the Barnim plateau to the Berlin Urstromtal. The name Oranke derives from the Slavic word Roderanke, meaning “reddish-brown lake.”
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Orankesee is referenced by 2 other articles, and connects out to Germany, Berlin and lake.
The entry is geolocated on the map in BE, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Lakes of Berlin and Lichtenberg.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Lichtenberg
- Area
- 0.040546
- Image
- Orankesee.jpg
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- Commons category
- Orankesee (Berlin)
- vertical depth
- 6.72
- volume as quantity
- 0.106050
- basin country
- Germany
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Encyclopedic overview
Orankesee is a lake in Berlin, Germany. Its surface area is . The Orankesee is a lake without inflow or outflow. Together with the nearby Obersee lake, it forms the center around which the Hohenschönhausen villa quarter developed. The Orankesee belongs to a chain of glacial lakes that extends from the Barnim plateau to the Berlin Urstromtal. The name Oranke derives from the Slavic word Roderanke, meaning “reddish-brown lake.”
Category:Lakes of Berlin Category:Lichtenberg
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orankesee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations