Ossiacher See

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Ossiacher See
OSSIACHER-SEE3.JL.JPG
Geographical location East of Villach
Tributaries Tiebel
Drain Seebach to the Drau
Places on the shore Ossiach (south), Bodensdorf (north)
Location close to the shore Villach , Ossiach , Steindorf , meeting
Data
Coordinates 46 ° 40 '13 "  N , 13 ° 57' 50"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '13 "  N , 13 ° 57' 50"  E
Ossiacher See (Carinthia)
Ossiacher See
Altitude above sea level 501  m above sea level A.
surface 10.7875 km²dep1
length 10.38 kmdep1
width 1.54 kmdep1
volume 206.28 million m³dep1
scope 25 kmdep1
Maximum depth 52.6 m
Middle deep 19.6 m
Catchment area 162.91 km²dep1
OSSIACHER-SEE2.JL.JPG
View from Oswaldiberg to Lake Ossiach

The Ossiacher See ( Slovenian Osojsko jezero ) is the third largest lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia . It is located northeast of Villach .

geography

It lies at an altitude of 501  m above sea level. A. and is at its deepest point 52 m deep, the area is about 10.5 km². It reaches the greatest extent from southwest to northeast with a length of about 10.2 kilometers, at the narrowest point between Ostriach and Ossiach the lake is about 600 meters wide. The lake is embedded between the wooded steep slopes of the Gerlitzen in the north and the western foothills of the Ossiacher Tauern in the south. The Ossiacher See is holomictic , which means that it is mixed to the bottom during the circulation phases in spring and late autumn. Natural lake and bank areas of the Ossiacher See have been declared nature and landscape protection areas.

The east bay is occupied by the lead, a moor (lead-sheet moor) through which the Tiebel , the main tributary of the lake, flows. The lake is drained via the Villacher Seebach into the Drau .

The main town on the lake is Ossiach with the famous Ossiach Abbey , but the largest municipality is Villach with the district Landskron . The rest of the lake is divided between the communities Treffen with Annenheim and Sattendorf and Steindorf with the district of Bodensdorf .

Flora and fauna

Water lily ( Nymphaea alba ) and yellow pond rose ( Nuphar lutea ) are found in floating leaf plants in the lake . Inland follow common rushes ( Scirpus lacustris ) and cattails , then reeds ( Phragmites australis ). A rare plant species in the reed bed is the sweet flag ( Acorus calamus ), which often grows here with hedgehog's cob ( Sparganium erectum ) and swamp iris ( Iris pseudacorus ). Further inland there is a belt of large sedge , mainly clumps of the stiff sedge ( Carex elata ), followed by a black alder forest. Today, the fens are largely displaced by meadows, pastures and fields. A specialty in the area of ​​the Tiebel estuary is the water nut ( Trapa natans ).

The following 21 fish species are found in the lake:

Ingo Findeegg also mentioned the following species in his 1934 work: gudgeon ( Gobio gobio ), bitterling ( Rhodeus sericeus amarus ), tailor ( Aburnoides bipunctatus ), nerfling ( Leuciscus idus ), hazel ( Leuciscus leuciscus ), loach ( Barbatula barbatula ).

The crayfish backlogs in the lake were in 1890, the first in Carinthia, by the crayfish plague were attacked. Today specimens are spotted again and again that may have migrated from the surrounding streams. The migrating mussel was introduced into the lake in 1972 and has multiplied greatly, along with the coot .

Characteristic water birds at the lake are great crested grebes , coot and mallard . Less common are Water Rail , Little Bittern , Savi's warbler and reed warbler , Beutelmeise , oriole and Kingfisher . The bird population has remained stable over the past ten years.

tourism

The Ossiacher See is an important tourist area with around two million overnight stays annually. The most important vacation spots directly on the lake are Annenheim, Sattendorf, Bodensdorf, Steindorf and Ossiach.

Around the lake, the Ossiacherseeradweg R2, a 25 km long cycle route, leads. With stages 18 to 20, the Alpe Adria Trail is also a 690 km long long-distance hiking trail that leads from the foot of the Großglockner in Carinthia Austria to Muggia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the Adriatic coast of Italy, to the region of Lake Ossiach.

Ice skating or Ice skating ban

According to the Feldkirchen district captain Dietmar Stückler, everyone is allowed to use the ice cover on public waters free of charge, but the authority can issue water police ordinances in the public interest. Franz Hartlieb from Bodensdorf, local resident, lawyer, passionate ice skater and first climber of the ice in winter 2016/2017 reported himself to have violated the ban on entering the ice surface, which the district authorities Feldkirchen, Villach-Land and the Villach magistrate on January 27th In 2017. Hartlieb considers this ban to be unlawful and wants to fight it up to the Constitutional Court in order to ensure that it “goes under”. Before the “ban on entering ice surfaces” was enacted, people were sharply criticized in the media who skated near ice-free areas, ie on ice that was considered to be unreliably thin. On the higher Weissensee there is an ice master who decides on the clearance of ice surfaces, takes care of the maintenance of the ice surface and marks various gaps in the ice with fir branches; this is not done on Ossiacher See.

natural reserve

In the area of ​​the Ossiacher See, some areas have been designated as nature or landscape protection areas:

See also

literature

  • Matthias Maierbrugger: Holidays at Ossiacher See. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1970. (93 pages; general overview with a historical outline of the surrounding places without further footnotes). (Extended edition 1978: ISBN 3-85366-273-0 ).
View from the Gerlitzen 2003

Web links

Commons : Ossiacher See  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j Carinthian Institute for Lake Research: Der Ossiacher See. Carinthia - Austria. Limnological long-term development 1964 - 2005 . Carinthian Institute for Lake Research, Klagenfurt 2009. - Full text online (PDF; 3.2 MB) .
  2. Ossiacher See - morphometric data. Carinthian Institute for Lake Research , accessed on April 25, 2013 .
  3. a b c Ilse Spielvogel-Bodo: The Ossiacher See between yesterday and today. History, art, regional studies of the lake region with the communities of Ossiach, Steindorf / Bodensdorf, Treffen, Villach / Landskron and Feldkirchen in Carinthia . 2nd, amended edition. Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1998, ISBN 3-85391-149-8 , pp. 9-16.
  4. ^ Ingo Findeegg: Contributions to the knowledge of the Ossiacher See. In: Carinthia II. 123/124. Year, 1934, pp. 61–78 ( PDF (2.7 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
  5. ^ Siegfried Wagner, Werner Petutschnig: Water bird count in Carinthia 2011. In: Carinthia II . 201/121 Volume, 2011, pp. 67–76 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  6. a b Ossiacher See on the Carinthian Institute for Lake Research , accessed July 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ Ice skaters at Ossiacher See showed themselves at orf.at, February 3, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017.
  8. Authorities have enough: Ossiacher See blocked orf.at, January 27, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017.