Hautsee
| Hautsee | ||
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| The icy Hautsee with its floating island in January 2009. | ||
| Geographical location | Wartburg district ( Thuringia ) | |
| Tributaries | without | |
| Drain | without | |
| Location close to the shore | Eisenach | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '45.2 " N , 10 ° 10' 20.3" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 306 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 1.6 ha | |
| length | 100 m | |
| width | 90 m | |
| scope | 400 m | |
| Maximum depth | 7 m | |
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particularities |
Floating island |
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The Hautsee is a natural, water-filled depression in Thuringia . It was formed centuries ago as a sinkhole . The specialty of the lake is its floating island , a small wood that floats on the surface of the lake.
location
The Hautsee is located 1.4 km east-northeast of the town of Dönges on the edge of the Frauensee forest in the Marksuhl district . Only 300 meters northeast of it is the approximately twice as large, now largely silted up Lake Albert . Both lakes are about 50 meters from the federal highway 84 . They are also known in literature as the small and large elf lake.
geology
The Frauensee area is rich in depressions and collapse funnels, caused by the leaching processes of the salts and sediments present in the subsurface.
history
In a document from 1486 a body of water is mentioned for the first time - the Kleyne Elfenssehe near Thennchiß . In a description from 1647, the author reported:
- About half a mile from Frauensee near the village of Denches there is another lake in the forest next to the other, but not particularly large, called the little Elfertsee, although it is far higher than the other; on the same is a plant of willow / hazel and other wood, so strongly and firmly woven by itself that several pieces of cattle can stand on it and graze ...
In 1778 another eyewitness wrote about this island:
- A flat piece of earth or crust floats on the lake, like the skin on milk ... - from then on the name Hautsee was in use.
The island first appeared to have grown in 1834 . A tap was made by workers and the island was made floatable again, as the curiosity was not to be missed. The unusual island in the lake gave rise to numerous legends. Depending on the observed location of the floating island, the people were oracles about the impending fate. The presence of mermaids and other water spirits was never doubted.
Hunts and celebrations have been taking place on the shores of the lake since the Romantic era , and a memorial stone honors the ducal forest master von Fritzsch . At the turn of the century, the structure of the floating island was scientifically researched by botanists and geologists. The island is therefore a special form of swinging lawn. Interested residents from Dönges and Marksuhl founded a local history association in 1953 as a local group in the Kulturbund. The area around the lake used as pastureland was redesigned into a park and provided with walking paths, an inn and a festival area. In 1954 the first Hautseefest took place on the shores of the lake. In 1977 the lake was designated as a natural monument . On behalf of science, divers examined the subsoil of the lake and the underside of the floating island for the first time in 2008.
literature
- Wolfgang Sinn and Heinrich Weigel: The Hautsee with the floating island near Dönges . In: Heimatblätter 93, Marburg 1994, pp. 103-106, ISBN 3-924269-61-0
gallery
Hautsee with floating island (aerial photo March 2014)
Albertsee, Hautsee, Dönges, Frauensee (aerial photo August 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office TK25 - sheet 5127 Bad Salzungen , Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-86140-063-4
- ^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach In: Naturschutz im Wartburgkreis , issue 8. Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 111f.
- ↑ Wolfgang Sinn, Heinrich Weigel: The skin lake . Pp. 103-106
- ↑ Something similar is reported from the floating island of Gerdauen (in East Prussia).
- ↑ 58. The Döngessee (p. 431). (PDF; 2.8 MB) In: German Fairy Tale Lexicon, Legends of the Brothers Grimm. Retrieved March 21, 2009 .
