The Dassower See (German for "Dassow lake") is a lake of the delta of Trave bay, northeast of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) on the Baltic Sea. The town of Dassow in the district Nordwestmecklenburg is the only large settlement at the lake bank. The Dassower See (Dassow Lake) is a side bay of the Trave, adjacent to the Baltic Sea. Despite its name, it is not a conventional lake, but a saltwater bay, which together with the Pötenitzer Wiek is almost fully cut off from the open sea and the Bay of Lübeck by the Priwall Peninsula. The approximately 8-kilometre (5 mi) long Dassower See has a funnel-like form, which narrows itself in the west (delta into the River Trave) outgoing from the delta of the River Stepenitz in the east, again on approximately 300 metres (980 ft). The lake belonged to the