Parsteiner See

The sun bakes these beautiful people as they play and splash each other with such supreme joy that nothing in the world could possibly bother them. Little children and adults alike delight in the freshness of a cool, clean lake, while others lounge on shore in the warm rays trying to get a summer tan without roasting into red lobsters. Parsteiner See is a lake in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve in Brandenburg, Germany located at an elevation of 44 m. Its surface area is 10.03 km². Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam. Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and city-state of Berlin. Originating in the medieval Northern March, the Margraviate of Brandenburg grew to become the core of the kingdom, later Free State of Prussia. The eastern third of historic Brandenburg was ceded to Poland in 1945. In late medieval and early modern times, Brandenburg was one of seven electoral states of the Holy Roman Empire, and, along with Prussia, formed the original core of the German Empire, the first unified German state. Governed by the Hohenzollern dynasty from 1415, it contained the future German capital Berlin. After 1618 the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia were combined to form Brandenburg-Prussia, which was ruled by the same branch of the House of Hohenzollern. In 1701 the state was elevated as the Kingdom of Prussia. Franconian Nuremberg and Ansbach, Swabian Hohenzollern, the eastern European connections of Berlin, and the status of Brandenburg's ruler as prince-elector together were instrumental in the rise of that state. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=125829