Göscheneralpsee

Göscheneralpsee
Location:  Uri Switzerland  Tributaries: Göschener Reuss , Dammareuss Drain: Göschener Reuss
Uri Alps
Coordinates	680 064  /  166 537 coordinates: 46 ° 38 '43 "  N , 8 ° 29' 4"  O ; CH1903:  680 064  /  one hundred sixty-six thousand five hundred thirty-seven
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Rockfall dam
Construction time:	1960
Height of the barrier structure :	155 m
Height above the river bed :	106 m
Building volume:	9 300 000  m³
Crown length:	540 m
Operator:	Kraftwerk Göschenen AG, Göschenen
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	1792  m above sea level M.
Water surface	1.32 km²
Reservoir length	2.3 km
Storage space	75 000 000  m³
Total storage space :	76 000 000  m³
Catchment area	42.3 km²
Design flood :	300 m³ / s
Particularities:	Highest rock embankment in Switzerland
Detailed map

The Göscheneralpsee is a reservoir in the municipality of Göschenen in the Swiss canton of Uri , which is used to operate the Göschenen power plant and is located in the Uri Alps at 1792  m above sea level. M. height is.

location

The reservoir can be reached from Göschenen through the Göschenertal . The 11 km long road was built in 1944. The Göschenertal lies between the Susten Pass and the Furka Pass . Around the lake are the peaks Sustenhorn (3503 m high), Dammastock (3630 m) and Galenstock (3586 m).

history

The lake was created as a replacement for the unrealized reservoir in the Urserental , which would have been used to operate the Urseren power plant . Soil mechanical investigations were carried out from 1952 to 1955 . In 1960 the dam on the Göscheneralp was completed. The former settlement of Göscheneralp, namely Hinteralp , nine kilometers west of Göschenen, has disappeared in the reservoir. The houses and the church were dismantled and flooded. Its residents moved to the hamlet of Gwüest, which belongs to the municipality of Göschenen .

technology

Location map of the Göschenens power plant showing the Göscheneralpsee with its supply lines.

The dam is designed as a planted earth dam, the wall height is 155 m, the dam crown is 540 m long. The dam is 700 m wide at the foundation. The storage basin with a capacity of around 75 million cubic meters collects the water from the Göschenertal, the Voralptal - a northern side valley of the Göschenertal, and from the upper  Urserental . The Chelenreuss and Dammareuss from the upper Göschenertal flow directly into the storage  basin , the  Voralpreuss and Stockbach are captured and fed  into the reservoir through the Voralpental feeder. The water of the Furkareuss also reaches  the lake  from a water intake at the Tiefenbach train station   via the Hinteres Urserental supply line  . This supply also receives water from the water intake of the Lochbergbach above  Realp . The reservoir supplies the Göscheneralp – Göschenen stage of the Göschenen power plant with water.

photos

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  Göscheneralpsee from Älprigen on the southern slope

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  Dam (east side)

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  Göscheneralpsee from the southwest

See also

• List of places in Switzerland flooded by reservoirs

Web links

Commons : Göscheneralpsee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lakes in Switzerland: Natural and storage lakes, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, 2007 ( Memento from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) → Lakes in Switzerland (PDF)

literature

• Fritz Ringwald: The Göschenen power plant. Geographical study on the utilization of the Reuss. In: Geographica Helvetica 18 (1963), p. 305 ff. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kraftwerke Göschenen AG: Kraftwerk Göschenen AG: History. In: www.kw-goeschenen.ch. Retrieved October 12, 2016 . 
2. ^ Fritz Ringwald: The Göschenen power station: Geographical study on the utilization of the Reuss . In: Geographica Helvetica . tape 18 , no. 4 , 1963, pp. 305-314 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-44946 .
3. ^ Georg Kaufmann: Hinteralp and Gwüest: Settlement history of the Göscheneralp . Gisler, Altdorf 1998, ISBN 978-3-9521208-5-9 .