Toeppersee

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Toeppersee
Duisburg (DerHexer) 2010-08-14 013.jpg
Toeppersee
Geographical location Ruhr area
Data
Coordinates 51 ° 24 '9 "  N , 6 ° 40' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '9 "  N , 6 ° 40' 42"  E
Toeppersee (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Toeppersee
surface 54 ha
length 1.094 km
width 649 m
volume 2,420,000 m³
Maximum depth 10.7 m
Middle deep 4.5 m
PH value 8.3
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The Toeppersee (also large Toeppersee ) is a lake in the west of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine between the districts of Rheinhausen ( Bergheim district ) and Rumeln-Kaldenhausen . It was created at the end of the 19th century by excavation work that began around 1898.

description

The lake is named after the company "Emil Toepper", which operated the gravel paving of the lake. The lake has an area of ​​0.54 square kilometers, a maximum depth of 10.7 meters with an average depth of 4.5 meters (as of 2001).

After the Second World War , parts of the lake were filled with overburden .

In 1959, a water sports club was established. From the mid-1960s, the entire area was expanded into a recreational lake with various offers such as water sports (including a sailing club and water ski facility ), boat rental, tennis courts and indoor tennis courts, as well as a large outdoor pool with several outdoor pools and a wave pool .

A swimming pool was planned and the corresponding function rooms had already been built. However, the construction of the indoor pool did not happen after after the annexation of the formerly prosperous city Rheinhausen by Duisburg in 1975 the money was missing. Also for reasons of cost, the outdoor pool was increasingly deteriorating. After a referendum failed to preserve it, it was closed in 2008. Then the facility was demolished and a single indoor pool was built, which is intended to replace the subsequently closed, also dilapidated indoor pools in the Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and Rheinhausen districts.

Today the Toeppersee, popularly known as Toepper for short , forms a green lung between Moers and Duisburg with the smaller neighboring lake Kleiner Toepper (see) , known in the region as Tegge . They are among the most famous lakes on the left Lower Rhine . In the hot summer months it attracts up to 5000 people a day. There is a water ski facility on the Tegge .

The north shore of the lake was the site of the skydiving competitions of the World Games 2005 .

For some years now, the waterweed in Toeppersee has made water sports and fishing almost impossible. In 2011, 4,000 rudds were released in the lake to eat the plants.

See also

Web links

Commons : Toeppersee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany: Part 9 North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate & Saarland (PDF; 576 KB)