Mooserboden reservoir

Mooserboden reservoir, view from the Hohe Tenn

Panorama view of the Mooserboden reservoir

The Mooserboden reservoir is located above the municipality of Kaprun in the Hohe Tauern in the state of Salzburg in Austria .

The reservoir is an annual reservoir with a surface of 1.6 km² and a usable volume of max. 84.9 million m³. The water is collected from a catchment area of 99.3 km², the majority of which is melt water from the Pasterzen glacier of the Großglockner . This melt water is collected in the Margaritze reservoir in Carinthia and fed through the 11.5 km long Möll transfer tunnel into the Mooserboden reservoir.

In the upper stage of the Kaprun power plant , the water is used to generate electricity. The target is at an altitude of 2036 m above sea level. A. , the lowering target to 1960 m above sea level. A.

The reservoir was created from the construction of the two dams Moosersperre (in the west) and Drossensperre (in the east) from 1947 to 1955. Between the two dams lies the Höhenburg rock ( 2108 m above sea level ).

Barriers

Surname	Type	Wall height	Crown length	Crown width	Max. Width of the base	Concrete cubature
Moosersperre	Gravity dam	107.0 m	494 m	7 m	70 m	670,000 m³
Throttle lock	Vault dam	112.0 m	357 m	7 m	25 m	340,000 m³

When the water is completely blocked, the walls of the two dams bend 5 cm outwards.

Throttle lock
Moosersperre

Historical

Mooserboden reservoir, towards the valley, towards Schwarzköpfl, Schattseitköpfl, Karlinger Kees, Hohe Riffl

“Built with Marshall Plan Help” plaque on the dam
Historical AV map Fuscher Kamm, 1891 - the Moserboden high alpine pasture with a group of alpine huts and the mighty glaciation of the entire Glockner group
The pagan church on Mooserboden in Kaprun is a memorial by the sculptor Josef Magnus. The work of art with the inscription “From work and sacrifice one work” commemorates all the workers who died in an accident and lost their lives during the construction of the Kaprun power plant group.
This memorial plaque was placed in 2003 on the memorial of the sculptor Josef Magnus on Mooserboden in Kaprun, which was named as the Pagan Church. It commemorates over 120 forced laborers who perished during the construction of the Kaprun power plant group between 1940 and 1945.