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. One changed small boats (or punts) from several boards, lengthways and crossways to produce at the beginning of the last century.

This required special manual dexterity and presupposed specialized knowledge. So this one arose today keel lots, flat small boat form. The Spreewaldkahn ( small boats or punts of the Spreewald) is, in front broad than behind and so, with which a flat hydroplane a kind of landing craft flow the smallholder of this "drives onto the meadow".

With a little luck one even still can see the small boat and watch the post woman using it. Lehde according to an old tradition is - carried out the postal delivery on the waterway in the zip code supplement Lübbenau from spring until autumn.