Engelsried lake
| Engelsried lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Rott municipality , Landsberg am Lech district , Upper Bavaria , Bavaria , Germany | |
| Tributaries | Rottbach | |
| Drain | Rottbach | |
| Places on the shore | Seehäusl | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 53 '14 " N , 10 ° 58' 40" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 698 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 6.5 ha | |
| length | 700 m | |
| width | 150 m | |
The Engelsrieder See is a small, sickle-shaped moor lake in the area of the municipality Rott in the district of Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria , Germany . It looks as natural as a natural lake, but it is an artificial lake. At the instigation of Wessobrunn abbot Kaspar Götz , the lake was created for fish farming in the first third of the 16th century. It remained in the ownership of the Wessobrunn monastery until secularization in 1803 . In the course of secularization, the lake was sold to the Rotter Müller, who used the water to run the mill. Due to a storm in 1905 the dam broke with devastating consequences: the lake ran out, the mills were destroyed, and the lake was dry. It was not until 1920/21 that the weir was rebuilt and the lake redesigned. Since then, it has increasingly developed into a local recreation area.
description
The Engelsrieder See is traversed by the Rottbach , a tributary of the Lech near Apfeldorf . The lake borders on a forest area in the south, which turns into a raised bog . Its water has the deep brown color typical of moor lakes. See and surroundings form the 83-hectare since 1972 conservation area Engel Rieder Lake (LSG 00244.01). The lake is surrounded by forest and fields. Only in the eastern part of the north bank are there a few private houses, as well as an outdoor swimming pool of the community with a watchtower and a restaurant. This collection of buildings, called Seehäusl , is spread over the two districts of Landsberg am Lech and Weilheim-Schongau , with the larger part belonging to the Landsberg district with its restaurant and outdoor pool. However, the houses there do not form an official district of the Rott community, while the properties in the area of the Wessobrunn community form the Seehäusl district . In the surrounding area, Lake Engelsried is popular for swimming. Since March 1st, 2008 it has been monitored as an EU bathing water according to the EU Bathing Water Directive .
The Engelsrieder See is primarily, but not just a swimming lake. The fish in the lake include carp , catfish and pike . A big catch is the pike caught in October 2002, which was 115 cm long and 13 kg. The beaver has settled again since mid-2006 , as a beaver dam built at the southern end of the lake and some felled trees with corresponding bite marks closed.
The name Engelsried comes from a nearby, former Schwaige of the Wessobrunn monastery, first attested in 1494 as "Engelßried". Presumably it comes from a personal name that begins with Engil 'angel', for example Engildio.
A legend traces the origin of the lake back to the miraculous rescue of Angel von Rott , a daughter of Count (?) Engildeo von Rott. The Count had promised his daughter's hand to the one who would free his territory from a dragon that plagued the land. A knight from Diessen killed the dragon and then demanded the maiden. The latter fled from him to a lonely hut, which the knight set alight in order to get hold of her. Water erupting from underground springs extinguished the flames and drove the knight away. The water then flowed to the valley and formed a lake there that has been named after her ever since.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Cölestin Leuthner : History of the Wessobrunn Monastery. With references to the general and special history of Bavaria . According to the translation by Mayer / Schelb from the Latin original from 1753, Wessofontanum, Wessobrunn 2001, p. 331: “At the Engelsried estate, he [the abbot, 1508–1525] caught the Rott river by digging earth and forming one Lake for fish farming, which is still very useful for the monastery today [1753]. "
- ↑ Hirschauer, Jakob / Gemeinde Rott (ed.): Homeland book with farm and house history of the community Rott . Municipality of Rott / self-published, Rott 1996, p. 411 ff .
- ^ Homepage of the Landratsamt Landsberg am Lech: Landscape protection areas. URL: http://212.118.196.12/orgdata.asp?naviid= Zonen4ECAD366-33E7-4A01-B7BE-1652B447CBF4}&OrgID= ZonenE87EEDC2-A280-46EA-899C-E378D03A0633} ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2010
- ^ BayernAtlas. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Landratsamt Landsberg am Lech: EU bathing waters - Rott, Engelsrieder See, Nordurfer. URL: http://www.landkreis-landsberg.de/landratsamt/abteilungen/eurott.php , accessed on June 22, 2010
- ^ Municipality of Rott (ed.): Communal bulletin. No. 3 December 2002, URL: Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2010.
- ^ Municipality of Rott (ed.): Communal bulletin. No. 20 May 2007, URL: http://www.rott-lech.de/mitteilblatt07Mai.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2010.
- ↑ Bruno Schweizer: The field names of the southwestern Ammersee area. Self-published by the Association for Field Name Research in Bavaria, Munich 1957, p. 99.
- ^ Ingrid Berle, Marie Luise Hoffmann, Renate Könke, Marie-Louise Schmeer-Sturm: The Black Leaders: Munich - Upper Bavaria. Eulen Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 978-3-89102-424-9 , p. 238. In a variant of the legend, the origin of the Engelsrieder See or a lake origin is not mentioned: Bruno Schweizer: Volkssagen aus dem Ammersee area. Heimatverlag Bruno Schweizer, 1950, p. 149.
