Grüntensee

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Grüntensee
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Location: Oberallgäu , Ostallgäu
Tributaries: Wertach
Larger places nearby: Nesselwang
Grüntensee (Bavaria)
Grüntensee
Coordinates 47 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1961/62
Height above foundation level : 21 m
Building volume: 130,000 m³
Crown length: 180 m
Power plant output: 1.04 MW
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 876 m
Water surface 123.4 hadep1
Reservoir length 2.5 kmdep1
Total storage space : 14.8 million m³
Catchment area 82.2 km²
Design flood : 85 m³ / s

The Grüntensee is a 2.5 km long and 11.2 m deep reservoir of the Wertach with a circumference of 8.2 km in the Oberallgäu district on the border with the Ostallgäu district , Bavarian Swabia , Bavaria , 3.1 km west of Nesselwang . The reservoir was completed in 1962 and is used for flood protection and electricity generation. A power of 1 MW is generated in a hydropower plant .

Information board at the Grüntensee

The Grüntensee and some areas of its shore are also used as a recreational area. The Grüntensee climbing forest (a high ropes course) is located on the north shore of the Grüntensee .

The lake was named after the eye-catching mountain Grünten on the northern edge of the Allgäu Alps , about 11 kilometers southwest .

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  1. a b c d Grüntensee. In: lfu.bayern.de. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, archived from the original on June 21, 2011 ; Retrieved June 21, 2011 .