Bolmen
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| View of Lake Bolmen from Piksborg. | ||
| Geographical location | in the western part of Småland in Sweden | |
| Tributaries | Storån | |
| Drain | Bolmån | |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 52 ' N , 13 ° 42' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 141.6 m above sea level | |
| surface | 173.19 km² | |
| volume | 1.070 km³ | |
| Maximum depth | 36 m | |
| Middle deep | 5.4 m | |
| Catchment area | 1640 km² | |
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particularities |
Inland island Bolmsö , drinking water supply |
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The Bolmen is the largest lake in the western part of Småland in Sweden . It is located about 80 kilometers south of Jönköping .
The name Bolmen comes from Old Swedish ( Swedish Fornsvenska ) and is dated to the year 1689. At that time it was called “Bollmen Lacus”, which means “Big Lake” ( Storsjön in Swedish ).
The lake has many islands - according to a legend there are 365 - of which Bolmsö is the largest. The Tira Islands , which were not mapped until 1932, are also located in the lake.
Most of the Bolmen belongs to the municipality of Ljungby , parts of the lake belong to the municipalities of Hylte and Värnamo .
The lake is used to supply drinking water to several places in southern Sweden, including a. Lund . The water is directed to Skåne through the Bolmentunnel . The natural flow of the lake is the Bolmån river , which in turn is the largest tributary of the Lagan .
At the southern end of the Bolmen there was Piksborg Castle in the 13th century. The complex can still be seen today, but the buildings no longer exist because they were made of wood. In Piksborg, the “Banvallsleden” cycle path crosses the Bolmen.
There are 24 species of fish in Bolmen. There are pikeperch , pike , perch , eel , bream , tench , rudd , roach , burbot , salmon , salmon trout .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sjöareal och sjöhöjd (3.32 MB; PDF) , Svenskt vattenarkiv (SVAR), Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)
- ↑ a b c Sjödjup och sjövolym (712.6 kB; PDF) , Svenskt vattenarkiv (SVAR), Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)
- ↑ VattenWeb , Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)