Bibersee (Fronreute)

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Beaver lake
Geographical location Alpine foothills

Baden-Württemberg

Tributaries Groundwater, drainage
Drain […] →  Hühler Ach →  Booser Ach →  Schussen →  Rhine →  North Sea
Location close to the shore Fronreute
Data
Coordinates 47 ° 51 '54 "  N , 9 ° 33' 28"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '54 "  N , 9 ° 33' 28"  E
Altitude above sea level 574  m above sea level NHN
surface 3.2 ha
volume 91,400 m³
Maximum depth 4.7 m
Middle deep 2.9 m
Catchment area 66 ha

particularities

Bibersee nature reserve

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The Bibersee is a still water in the area of ​​the Baden-Württemberg community Fronreute in the district of Ravensburg in Germany .

location

The approximately three hectare large Bibersee naturally belongs to the Upper Swabian hill country . It belongs to the Blitzenreuter Lake District , lies west of the Blitzenreute district and east of the Fronhofen district at an altitude of 574  m above sea level. NHN .

The lake is surrounded by the Bibersee nature reserve of the same name .

description

The almost circular lake with a diameter of around 250 meters lies in a dead ice hole that formed at the end of the Worm Ice Age 16,000 years ago . He is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation in 1090. In 1155, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa confirmed his possessions to the Benedictine monastery Weingarten , including the " Lacus Bibersee "; Since then the water has been used for fish farming .

Today the nutrient-poor lake has a narrow belt of water lilies and silted reed, as well as a limestone bog and whistle-grass meadows with emerging willow and buckthorn bushes in the edge zone .

Hydrology

The catchment area of the Bibersee covers around 66 hectares. With an area of ​​3.2 hectares and an average depth of 2.9 meters - the maximum is 4.7 meters - the lake contains around 91,400 cubic meters of water. It is fed from the groundwater and drainage; it drains over a trench to the Hühler Ach and on to the Schussen and Lake Constance .

ecology

Annual average of plant nutrients and other trophy indicators
year 1984 1991 1999 2007
Total PO 4 - phosphorus (µg / l) 74 54 46 31
Chlorophyll a (µg / l) 25th 15th 13
Chlorophyll a peak (µg / l) 79 29 30th
total inorganic nitrogen (mg / l) 19th 0.36 1.4 2.05
Viewing depth (m) 1.7 2.1 1.6

Flora and fauna

flora

Among the flora worthy of protection are the following plant species :

fauna

In 1990 included eel , perch , bream , white bream , pike , carp , roach , rudd , tench and catfish to fish in the beaver lake, 2000, bleak and zander .

The fauna worth protecting include the following species:

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Bibersee and surroundings
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

  1. Height according to the blue lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  2. Lake area after the layer standing waters .

Other evidence

  1. ^ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 187/193 Lindau / Oberstdorf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1991. →  Online map (PDF; 6.1 MB)

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 8123 Weingarten

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