 Just behind the in Lübeck the Stepenitz empties into the Dassower See.Through this lake its waters reach the Pötenitzer Wiek, a bay of the Trave river, the Priwall Peninsula and Mecklenburg, where the Stepenitz discharges into the Trave at sea level.A few hundred metres further north, by Travemünde, the Trave reaches the Baltic.