Amselsee
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '52 " N , 14 ° 4' 53" E | ||||||||
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| Construction time: | 1934 | ||||||||
| Height above valley floor: | 5.5 m (with parapet wall) | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 38 m | ||||||||
| Crown width: | 1.2 m | ||||||||
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| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 125.7 m | ||||||||
| Water surface | 1.2 ha | ||||||||
| Reservoir length | 550 m | ||||||||
| Storage space | 19th 600 m³ | ||||||||
The Amselsee Rathen is a small reservoir in the health resort Rathen in Saxon Switzerland in the Free State of Saxony ( Germany ).
history
The first ideas for the construction of the reservoir were created at the end of the 1920s. The Rathen municipal administration in particular pushed the project, as it hoped that it would make the landscape even more attractive and thus stimulate tourism. At the same time, the reservoir should serve for flood protection , fire extinguishing purposes and fish farming. After fierce controversy between landscape conservationists and representatives of tourism, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 21, 1934.
For the Amselsee, the Grünbach (or Amselgrundbach), the main body of water in the Amselgrund , was dammed in its most balanced section just above the Wehlgrund, which flows in from the west, by a dam around five meters high . It has a bottom outlet with a diameter of 50 cm and a flood overflow with 7 openings, each 2.0 m wide in the middle of the wall. The reservoir was completed on December 19, 1934. The construction costs amounted to almost 31,000 Reichsmarks .
The reservoir called Amselsee quickly developed into a tourist attraction for the community of Rathen. The approximately 540 meter long body of water is surrounded by a series of climbing rocks, the most famous of which is the locomotive . Initially, 12 rowing boats and 12 sloops were available for boat trips on the lake. On July 5, 1957, a heavy downpour caused great damage to the dam and the lake, which partially silted up. In 1983 the previous boats were replaced by 30 new sheet steel boats. Ten years later (1993) the lake was dredged, about 5,000 m³ of mud and sand were disposed of. The flood in August 2002 made it necessary to dredge another 3,000 m³ of sand and mud in 2003. From 2004 the restoration of the dam, the path along the lake and the acquisition of 20 new rowing boats took place.
Data of the structure
- Barrier structure: 35 meter long straight gravity dam made of quarry stone masonry
- Reservoir length: about 540 meters
- Water surface: 12,200 m²
- Water content: about 19,000 m³
- Water depth: up to 4 meters
Flora and fauna
The reservoir is used for fish farming, the trout stock is partly mixed with American rainbow trout . In the riparian vegetation can be calopterygidae observed.
gallery
Amselgrund with Amselsee, locomotive and the valley guard
View to the dam
The new boats on the dam
Amselsee
Blackbird waterfall
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Web links
- The Amselsee on kurort-rathen.de