Murten lake

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Murten lake
Le lac de Morat de 2008.jpg
View to the northeast
Geographical location Zealand
GEWISS no .: 3754
Tributaries Broye
Drain Broye Canal
Islands La Grande Île
Places on the shore Murten
Data
Coordinates 573091  /  197 964 coordinates: 46 ° 55 '56 "  N , 7 ° 5' 7"  O ; CH1903:  573091  /  one hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-four
Murtensee (Switzerland)
Murten lake
Altitude above sea level 429.3  m above sea level M. (1983-2014)
surface 23 km²
length 8.2 km
width 2.8 km
volume 0.6 km³
scope 23.611 km
Maximum depth 46 m
Middle deep 24 m
Catchment area 693 km²

particularities

Water renewal time : 1.6 years

BFS no. : 9294
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The Murtensee (outdated Murtenersee , historically Üchtsee ), French Lac de Morat , with an area of ​​22.8 km² is the smallest of the three large Swiss Jura lakes, after Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Biel .

geography

Steamship Neuchâtel in Murten

Lake Murten is located in the cantons of Friborg and Vaud . The eponymous city of Murten lies on its southern bank . 40 meters from the north bank, near Guévaux, is the island of La Grande Île with an area of ​​0.1 ha.

The main tributary is the Broye , which drains 63% of the catchment area. The outflow is the Broye Canal, which leads into Lake Neuchâtel . The long-term mean (since 1983) was the water level at 429.30 m above sea level. M. only 2 cm above that of Lake Neuchâtel. Together with Lake Neuchâtel, Lake Murten serves as a compensation basin for the Aare that flows into Lake Biel . When flooding from the Aare causes Lake Biel to rise, the runoff comes to a standstill and at times even flows backwards.

The lake is 8.2 km long and a maximum of 2.8 km wide. Its maximum depth is 45 m, its content around 0.55 km³. The catchment area is 693 km². The theoretical residence time of the water in the lake (filling time) is 1.6 years.

The Murten lake offers various leisure and water sports opportunities; Among other things, there is a sailing school , a surf school and two wakeboard schools .

There are three smaller viewing platforms on the eastern shore of the lake.

Expo.02

During Expo.02 , a rusty, accessible monolith by the architect Jean Nouvel with a side length of 34 meters was floating on Lake Murten, 200 m from the port in Murten, inside of which two panoramic images could be seen (see picture). After the national exhibition it was dismantled again.

  • Difficult to access shore of Lake Murten, near Faoug

  • Monolith by Jean Nouvel during Expo.02

  • The highest of three viewing platforms

See also

Web links

Commons : Murtensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erich Liechti, Jürg Meister, Josef Gwerder: The history of shipping on the Jura waters. Lake Neuchâtel - Lake Murten - Lake Biel - Aare. Meier, Schaffhausen 1982, ISBN 3-85801-035-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://hydrodaten.admin.ch/de/2004.html → Annual table 2014: annual mean 1983-2014
  2. ↑ a b c d Seen (Federal Office for the Environment FOEN). Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Uechtland. In: Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 18. Altenburg 1864. P. 120 , accessed on December 6, 2011 .