Great Arbersee

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Great Arbersee
Grosser Arbersee.jpg
Looking east to the Arberseehaus
Geographical location Bavarian forest

Bavaria

Regen district
Bavarian Eisenstein
Tributaries Violin brook
Drain Geigenbach / Arberseebach →  Big Rain →  Black Rain →  Rain →  Danube →  Black Sea
Places on the shore Arberseehaus (guest house)
Data
Coordinates 49 ° 5 '55 "  N , 13 ° 9' 18"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '55 "  N , 13 ° 9' 18"  E
Great Arbersee (Bavaria)
Great Arbersee
Altitude above sea level 935  m above sea level NN
surface 7.7 ha
length 550 m
width 260 m
volume 450,000 m³
Maximum depth 16 m
Middle deep 5.8 m
PH value 5.91
Catchment area 2.58 km²

particularities

Swinging lawn , the
most visited lake in the Bayer. Forest

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The Große Arbersee is a lake in the Bavarian Forest on the southeast flank of the Großer Arber . It is located in the municipality of Bayerisch Eisenstein in the Regen district and is the most visited lake in the Bavarian Forest.

Just like seven other lakes in the region (see below), the Great Arbersee is a Karsee , a relic of the Ice Age . The water, which is embedded in a deep and wildly romantic mountain basin, is surrounded by a dense jungle and high forest . About two kilometers to the northwest, the lake is dominated by the 1456  m high Großer Arber by 500 m.

The Großer Arbersee seen from the terrace of the Arberseehaus

Between 1803 and 1897 the lake lost around 1.5 hectares of its surface due to the formation of felt. In order to prevent the lake from overgrowing, a large part of the swinging lawn was blasted off and pulled ashore, which significantly increased the lake area again. Today there are two larger areas of vibrating lawn in the western part of the lake, one with 1.4 hectares in the southwest and one with 0.8 hectares in the northwest. In contrast to the floating islands in the Kleiner Arbersee , the swinging lawns on the Großer Arbersee are connected to the shore, but they too have no fixed connection to the lake bed.

In the west of the lake, the almost 400 m high Arberseewand rises steeply. The ascent over the sea wall to the Arbergipfel was closed due to an increase in bark beetle infestation and after several crashes and dramatic rescue operations.

The Große Arbersee is located directly next to a busy state road, it has around half a million visitors per year, who can walk around the lake on footpaths, some of which are stony and often wet, and in the moorland area. The Arberseehaus restaurant is on the bank next to the road . The first Arberseehaus was built in 1905.

View of the lake (2012)

The nature reserve

The nature reserve Großer Arbersee and Arberseewand was designated by regulation of the regional president in Regensburg on August 15, 1939 and put into effect by an announcement in the Bavarian government gazette of August 22, 1939. It had been a plant sanctuary since 1914 . It is 157 hectares and encompasses the area around the lake including the lake wall. In 1972, an area of ​​around 130 hectares was declared a natural forest reserve Geige und Seewand . In the entire protected area, there is a ban on walking, cycling, dogs are required to be on a leash, bathing and sunbathing and the ban on driving on the lake without authorization. The nature reserve - as well as the entire Lower Bavarian Arber area - is particularly looked after by the "Area Manager Arber Region" of the Bavarian Forest Nature Park.

The sea wall closes off the lake and the core area of ​​the natural forest reserve to the west. Forestry was never possible here because of the steepness of the terrain and the inaccessibility. The natural ecological cycle was therefore never interrupted, which is why trees up to 400 years old are here. Many animal species depend on ecological niches in this species-rich mixed forest, in which dead wood is not removed immediately, but remains as a livelihood for beetles and other insects.

Insects are the main source of food for the more than 45 bird species that nest in the natural forest reserve, including the rare white-backed woodpecker , which in Germany only occurs in the Alps and here in the Bavarian Forest. Abandoned woodpecker holes offer shelter for other animals, e.g. B. the pine marten . Due to the abundance of water, the reserve also meets the ecological requirements of the otter , which has found one of its last refuge areas in Central Europe here.

Geotope

The Arbersee with the Arbersee walls has been designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as a particularly valuable geotope (geotope number: 276R007).

  • photos

  • The lake seen from the Arberseehaus

  • Nature on the Great Arbersee

  • The moor side

  • View 1 (2012)

  • View 2 (2012)

  • View 3 (2012)

  • View 4 (2018)

Fairytale forest

Right next to the Arbersee there was a fairy tale park founded in 1970 that was open in the summer months. The one-hour tour led past various houses and visitors were able to have fairy tales told by the tape, mostly at the push of a button. The fairy tale forest was closed in October 2015.

Other lakes in the region

In addition to the Silent Lake, there are five further glacial lakes on the Czech side of this extensive forest area in the Bohemian Forest , all in the Šumava Biosphere Reserve .

Gasthaus am Großer Arbersee

The Arberseehaus was leased until 2014 and came under the management of the Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Arber-Bergbahn eK again in 2015. It was demolished in October 2016 and is to be replaced by a new building by 2018.

Despite its old age, the Arberseehaus was not a listed building due to previous renovations. It had to be demolished because, although its structure had suffered greatly during this time, it had not been adequately maintained in the last four decades. This had significant structural defects, walls, foundations and the terrace were very soaked. For this reason and also because of the increased requirements for fire protection, renovation was ruled out and only a new building was considered.

The plan for the new Arberseehaus is based on the building plan from 1904. It is to be built in wood, with arched windows and doors as well as mosaic windows. The new lake house should fit in well with the surroundings of the Bavarian Forest.

See also

Web links

Commons : Großer Arbersee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Forest Nature Park -> Area Management -> Arber
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotope Arbersee with Arbersee walls (accessed on October 18, 2017).
  3. ↑ Homepage of the fairy tale forest ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 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 September 1, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maerchenwald-arbersee.de