Teufelssee (Bohemian Forest)

Devil's Lake Čertovo jezero
Devil's Lake (Čertovo jezero) seen from the east
Geographical location	Bohemian forest
Drain	Seebach (Jezerní potok) → Regen → Danube
Data
Coordinates	49 ° 9 '54 "  N , 13 ° 11' 52"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '54 "  N , 13 ° 11' 52"  E
Altitude above sea level	1030  m nm
surface	10.33 ha
length	445 m
width	300 m
volume	1,850,000 m³
Maximum depth	36.5 m
Middle deep	17.9 m
Catchment area	85.7 ha

The Teufelssee ( Čertovo jezero in Czech ) is a glacial lake in the Bohemian Forest . It is located on Czech territory below the 1343 meter high sea ​​wall at 1030 m above sea level. The bedrock is mica schist .

The lake belongs to the town of Železná Ruda (Eisenstein Market) and to the cadastral municipality of Železná Ruda II . The area was barely accessible to the public until the fall of the Iron Curtain because of its short distance of only 1200 meters from the state border.

The 175 hectare nature reserve Black Lake and Devil's Lake (Černé a Čertovo jezero) was established in 1911 when the area belonged to Austria-Hungary . The glacier cut has left scratches and round humps in the sea wall . The flora there shows ice age relics . There are three walls of lateral moraines on the left parallel to the lake shore . The broad right lateral moraine is divided into two parallel lines. The two walls of the terminal moraines run up to 200 meters downstream.

The main European watershed runs between Čertovo jezero and Černé jezero , just 1.5 km to the north-west . The Teufelssee is the humic acid-richest lake in the Bohemian Forest and the only one on the Czech side that flows over the Seebach and finally the rain to the Danube .

Web links

Commons : Čertovo jezero  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the Sumava National Park (Czech)

Panoramic picture of the Teufelssee