Hochalpsee
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| Hochalpsee in front of the northwestern Walsertal mountains | ||
| Geographical location | Allgäu Alps ; Vorarlberg , Austria | |
| Location close to the shore | Mittelberg | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 16 '49 " N , 10 ° 7' 16" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1970 m above sea level A. | |
| surface | 0.85 ha | |
| length | 125 m | |
| width | 50 m | |
| Maximum depth | 8 m | |
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particularities |
Worth protecting habitat |
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The Hochalpsee is a 1970 meter high mountain lake near Baad in the Austrian part of the Allgäu Alps . The shores of the 0.85 hectare and nutrient-poor lake are the sites of the endangered species fever clover and swamp blood-eye .
Location and surroundings
The Hochalpsee is located in the municipality of Mittelberg in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . To the northeast rises above him the Great Widderstein (2533 m) with a mighty main dolomite - rubble heap. In the south lies the Seekopf , a 2039 meter high peak . The lake surrounding the pastures of the high alp-Alpe .
geology
The environment in which the lake is embedded is formed from the rocks of the so-called Kössen layers . This sequence of layers of dark marls and yellowish-dark limestone weather easily and form loamy , water- retaining and spring-rich soils.
nature
The eastern edge of the lake is formed by a beak sedge ( Caricetum rostratae ) in a silting zone , which is made up of beak sedge . It contains the rare species of fever clover ( Menyanthes trifoliata ), whose location is considered to be relatively high here. To the south-east this turns into a Kleinseggenried , in which Scheuchzer's cotton grass is found. On the south shore grow marsh marigolds .
Access
The lake is on the hiking trail between the Hochalppass (1938 m) and the Widdersteinhütte (2009 m), from which the normal route to the Großer Widderstein branches off. The Hochalppass is reached from the Hochtannbergpass (1676 m) and from the village of Baad in the Kleinwalsertal .
Web links
- Biotope inventory community Mittelberg: Hochalpsee (biotope number 22849) . (P. 71) (PDF, 4.33 megabytes; 4.6 MB)
- Sampling protocol Hochalpsee 2004 (PDF, 0.37 megabytes; 380 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Scholz: Building and Becoming the Allgäu Landscape . E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele and Obermiller), Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-510-65165-0 (p. 36).