Latschensee
| Latschensee | ||
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| The Latschensee | ||
| Geographical location | Bavarian forest | |
| Drain | drainless | |
| Location close to the shore | Buchenau | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 '31 " N , 13 ° 23' 52" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1150 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 0.1 ha | |
| length | 45 m | |
| width | 35 m | |
| Maximum depth | 2 m | |
| PH value | angry | |
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particularities |
no fish or amphibians |
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The Latschensee , also popularly known as Kohlweiher , in Czech Klečové jezírko , is an upland moor lake with no outflow in the Bavarian Forest . It belongs to the municipality of Lindberg and is located in the Bavarian Forest National Park . The nearest village is Buchenau in the municipality of Lindberg, five kilometers to the west (as the crow flies ). The shafts Hochschachten and Kohlschachten are a few hundred meters southwest and north of the lake.
description
The name Latschensee is derived from the surrounding tree flora, which includes pines and bog spruce trees . The Czech name has the same meaning: Kleč means mountain pine and jezirko means a small lake or pond . It is 45 meters long and up to 35 meters wide in north-south direction. Despite an area of only 0.1 ha , it is the largest moor lake in the Bavarian Forest (the largest moor lake on the Czech side of the border, in the Chalupská slať high moor or Großer Königsfilz near Borová Lada , is much larger at 1.3 hectares). The Latschensee is located in the middle of the Latschenfilz , also known as Schluttergasse , a high moor 390 meters west of the border with the Czech Republic and 350 meters north of the high shaft at an altitude of about 1150 meters. The moor developed after the last ice age, after the revitalized spring water could not sink into the compacted ice age bedrock on crystalline granite and peat formation gradually set in with the predominance of waterlogging by nutrient-poor rainwater .
The flowing spring water eventually led to the formation of several moor lakes, of which the Latschensee on the Bavarian side is the largest. In the course of the 20th century its area increased significantly. It is around 2 meters deep, with 3 to 4 meters of peat mud below it. Sundew , cranberries and rosemary heather grow on its banks . Neither fish nor frogs live in the humus acidic, coffee-brown to black water. Only the large bog dragonfly, adapted to the harsh living conditions in these high areas, can be seen on the shore hunting for prey insects, as well as water striders on the lake surface. However, swamp peat moss , liverwort and bladder sedge can be found swimming or submerged .
The Latschensee is close to the E6 long-distance hiking trail and can be reached from the northwest via a 50-meter-long branch path with a boardwalk. The boardwalk was rebuilt in 1997 for safety reasons and to protect the sensitive nature. Just a good 100 meters north-northeast is another small, nameless moor lake, which is only 14 by 18 meters, and 145 meters to the northwest, an even smaller one with a size of 8 by 12 meters. On the hike through the high moor you can see sinkholes where new moor lakes arise. These nameless still waters are also called bog eyes .
See also
- Modravské slatě (south-east adjoining large raised bog complex on the Czech side)
- Chalupská slať (with the largest moor lake in the Czech Republic)
Web links
- Shaft hike (PDF file; 30 kB)
literature
- Georg Priehäußer: Hochmoor with Hochmoorseen in Schluttergasse , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau 1974.