Turracher See

Turracher See
Geographical location	Turracherhöhe
Drain	Vorderer Seebach (Turrach)
Places on the shore	Turracherhöhe , Stadl-Predlitz (Styria), Reichenau in Carinthia
Data
Coordinates	46 ° 55 '8 "  N , 13 ° 52' 35"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 55 '8 "  N , 13 ° 52' 35"  E
Altitude above sea level	1780  m above sea level A.
surface	19,433 9  ha
volume	2,644,477 m³
Maximum depth	33 m
Middle deep	13.6 m
Catchment area	2.2 km²

The Turracher See or Turrachsee is a mountain lake on the Turracher Höhe on the border between Carinthia and Styria .

description

The lake is 19.4 hectares in size and 33 meters deep at its deepest point in the southeast corner, the average depth is 13.6 meters. Due to its location at 1,780 meters above sea level (lake surface), it is covered with an ice layer up to one meter thick on average for six months a year. In summer it reaches a maximum temperature of 18 ° C. It is therefore hardly used as a bathing lake; The exception is a 10 × 25 meter area on the south bank, which is separated from the lake by a hotel with 3.5 meter high side walls and within which the water is brought to 28 to 30 ° C by means of heat pumps .

The Turracher See is fed by a stream flowing into the west bank and by marsh meadows. The outflow (75 l / s) takes place as the Vorderer Seebach in the north, which joins the Hinterer Seebach coming from the Turracher Schwarzsee to form the Turrach , which flows northwards through the Turracher tributary valley and finally flows into the Mur in Predlitz .

Since the lake was heavily polluted by the surrounding tourist businesses, the Turracher See was the first Carinthian lake on which a sewer system was installed.

The Carinthian part is now part of the Salzburg Lungau and Carinthian Nockberge biosphere reserve . In the east lies the Schwarzsee . A little further away in a southerly direction is the Grünsee .

Animals in the Turracher See

Only the following six fish species occur in the Turracher See:

• Brown trout ( Salmo tutta f. Fario )
• Brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis )
• Minnow ( Phoxinus phoxinus )
• Perch ( Perca fluviatilis )
• Lake trout ( Salmo trutta f. Lacustris )
• Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus )

While trout, arctic char and minnows are indigenous fish species, it is only recently that perch have unintentionally entered the lake with other fish.

Web links

Commons : Turracher See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Turracher See (Carinthian Institute for Lake Research)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turracher See (Carinthian Institute for Lake Research)