Kirchsee (Upper Bavaria)

Kirchsee
	Kirchsee in the evening sun
Geographical location	Upper Bavaria
Tributaries	Laubach
Drain	Kirchseebach
	Data
Coordinates	47 ° 49'8 " N , 11 ° 37'5" E Coordinates: 47 ° 49'8 " N , 11 ° 37'5" E
Altitude above sea level	699.0 m above sea level NN
surface	0.42 km²
Maximum depth	16.1

The Kirchsee is located just below Reutberg Monastery in the municipality of Sachsenkam, northeast of Bad Tölz in Upper Bavaria . The moor lake with a maximum depth of 16 m lies on the northern edge of the nature reserve Ellbach and Kirchseemoor, which has existed since 1940 .

description

The Kirchsee has been an EU bathing water since 2008 . There are two bathing areas with large jetties on the north bank. Toilets are available as well as parking spaces which are chargeable in the season. Then a kiosk is also open and the water watch base is mostly occupied. Another swimming area on the south bank can only be reached on foot from Reutberg Monastery. Outside the designated bathing areas, the bank may not be entered. Sailing boats and windsurfing as well as bathing, cleaning or watering animals of all kinds are also prohibited during the bathing season.

The water quality of the Kirchsee is very good (quality class I).

The Kirchsee is fed by relatively warm moor water that flows into it in several small streams. The brook leaving the lake is called Kirchseebach. This first flows in the channel of the Teufelsgraben towards Pelletsmühl and Hackensee , where it then seeps away .

Emergence

The Kirchsee is a tongue pool lake from the Würme Ice Age and arose from the Tölzer Lobus . The Kirchsee basin is characterized by extensive melting in the vertical direction and strong ice breakdown. Such rapid collapses in the ice masses occur more frequently when the ice thickness falls below a minimum value.