Bingstetter See

Bingstetter See
	The Bingstetter See in the foreground; in the background the Frankenhofner See and the Schlingener See
Geographical location	Bavaria , Germany
Tributaries	Wertach, Krumbach
Drain	Wertach
Places on the shore	Bad Woerishofen
	Data
Coordinates	47 ° 59 '14 " N , 10 ° 38' 54" E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '14 " N , 10 ° 38' 54" E
Altitude above sea level	628 m above sea level
surface	20 ha
length	500 m
width	500 m
scope	2 km
particularities	Reservoir

The Bingstetter See is a barrage of the Wertach and is used to generate energy.

location

The lake is located about four kilometers southeast of Bad Wörishofen in the Swabian part of Bavaria. The border between the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu runs through the Bingstetter See .

Surname

The name of the reservoir is reminiscent of the settlement of Bingstetten, which disappeared in the Middle Ages .

history

In the 50s of the 20th century, the Bingstetter See was dammed by building a dam on the Wertach. The client was Martin Fleschhut, owner of the hammer forge on the Wertach in Pforzen , who had been running a hydropower plant in Stockheim since 1927. A bronze plaque on the turbine house refers to the year 1955. During the course of construction work, a ford near Frankenhofen that had been used by farmers and carters for centuries was flooded. The local farmers therefore pushed for a bridge to be built before the construction, which finally took place in 1953. Fleschhut had started the construction of the power station without a permit, after which the parties reached an out-of-court agreement through mediation by the district office: The farmers had to bear two fifths of the construction costs with 20,755 marks. The steel bridge was built by the Augsburg ironworks, Gebrüder Frisch , and the concrete abutments on both sides by Mui & Pitroff. In 1955 the bridge was taken over by the community of Frankenhofen. The bridge is currently still approved for vehicles up to 3.5 t. In 1985 the power plant was sold.