Panixersee

Panixersee / Lag da Pigniu
	Looking north. In the background the house floor .
Location:	canton of Grisons
Tributaries:	Schmuèr , nameless streams
Drain:	Schmuèr
Larger places on the shore:	no
Larger places nearby:	Pigniu
	Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
Coordinates	726 966 / 187935 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '50 " N , 9 ° 6' 10" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty-six / 187935
	Data on the structure
Lock type:	Gravity dam
Construction time:	1980-1992
Height of the barrier structure :	53 m
Height above the river bed :	53 m
Height of the structure crown:	1450 m above sea level M.
Building volume:	161 000 m³
Crown length:	270 m
Crown width:	5 m
	Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	1452 m above sea level M.
Water surface	4.12 km²
Reservoir length	1.45 km
Reservoir width	250 m
Storage space	7th 300 000 m³
Catchment area	47 km²

The Panixersee ( Romansh Lag da Pigniu ) is a reservoir at the far end of the Val Pigniu in the Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It is located in the area of the municipality of Ilanz / Glion .

lake

The lake is two kilometers north of the village of Pigniu . It is around 1.5 kilometers long and around 250 meters wide. It is fed by some nameless mountain streams and the Schmuèr , which also leaves it again. An easy hiking or walking path leads around the lake. It takes around an hour to go around it. On the west side, several large waterfalls tumble down into the valley in the back.

To the northwest of the lake is the 3158 meter high Hausstock , in the north the Panixer Pass leads to Elm in the canton of Glarus .

investment

The 270 meter long dam was built between 1980 and 1990. The long construction period resulted from objections and geological difficulties in building the tunnels.

The system consists of the dam with two water intakes on the eastern slope of the valley, the pressure tunnel to the water lock , another water intake near the water lock, the pressure tunnel and the headquarters in Ilanz .

The weight wall stands on limestone rock. The area below the wall was renatured. Today it is used again as meadow and pasture land.

The dam is owned and operated by Kraftwerke Ilanz AG (KWI).

Monumental picture on the dam wall

In May 1999, the Engadin artist Martin Valär painted the dam with a huge picture. In 25 working days, he created a painting 195 meters wide and 30 meters high with soldiers twelve meters high. The topic is the crossing of the Panixer Pass by the Russian army under General Suworow in the Second Coalition War on October 6th and 7th, 1799 on the retreat from the Glarnerland to Graubünden. 2000 soldiers were killed in the process. Suworow is depicted as a swaying blue tower, a symbol of how the general and his army had been pushed back and forth by the rulers of the time like on a chessboard. The fallen soldiers are represented as pawns in a game of chess. The emulsion paint used should withstand the weather conditions for 20 to 30 years, but has now been heavily bleached.