It resulted from a prototype, the dug-out, for it from a trunk with the help of a round axe, is manufactured to the hollow or by burning out with fire. Dug-outs still were in the use by the middle of the 19th century.
At the beginning of the last century they built rowing boat from several boards, lengthways and crossways to produce.

This required special manual dexterity and presupposed specialized knowledge.

So the keel less, flat rowing boat form arose . The Spreewaldkahn (rowing boats of the Spreewald) is a flat hydroplane, in front broad than behind, and so it is a kind of landing craft flow the farmer of this "drives onto the meadow".

With a little luck you even can watch the post woman on a rowing boat.

From spring until autumn people in the zip code supplement Lübbenau-Lehde according get their postal delivery on the waterway.