Silbersee (Carinthia)

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Silver lake
Silbersee.JPG
View of the Silbersee with the island
Geographical location Carinthia
Data
Coordinates 46 ° 36 '33 "  N , 13 ° 54' 23"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '33 "  N , 13 ° 54' 23"  E
Silbersee (Carinthia) (Carinthia)
Silbersee (Carinthia)
Altitude above sea level 492  m
surface 8.4 ha
Maximum depth 7 m
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The Silbersee is located in Villach on the outskirts of the village of St. Ulrich and in the immediate vicinity of the Drau . This gravel pond covers an area of ​​8.4 hectares and has a maximum depth of 7 meters. Its surface is 492  m above sea level. A.

In the south-western part of the lake there is an island covered with grass, reeds and trees. The lake has neither inflows nor outflows.

history

The lake was created in the early 1970s as part of the construction of the southern motorway in the Villach area. The start of congestion for the Rosegg power plant shortly afterwards raised the groundwater level by more than two meters. As a result, the lake grew considerably and flooded areas that had previously been dry in the western part. A few years later it was enlarged again in the north and east by further gravel mining with backhoe excavators. After the gravel mining was completed, the city of Villach acquired the lake and its surroundings and expanded it into a freely accessible local recreation area. 1991 was at Silver Water skiing - World Cup held, in its preparations, the island was moved artificially by a few meters. In 2000 the “Wakeboard 2000 European pro tour” was held at the Silbersee.

On May 11, 2006, the small lake made headlines again when a caiman was allegedly sighted by walkers , whereupon a multi-day search operation by the department for nature and environmental protection of the city of Villach with the support of the responsible volunteer fire brigade St. Ulrich , the volunteer fire brigade Villach and the reptile expert Helga Happ was started. A caiman could not be found despite the fishing net and helicopter support. A ban on entry by the city of Villach was lifted after two days.

Sunset at the Silbersee
Silbersee in winter

Recreation area

The Silbersee is one of the few lakes in Carinthia with free access all year round. You can swim for free in summer and ice skating for free in winter. There are also private tennis courts and four freely accessible beach volleyball courts near the lake. Directly on the lake is a landing stage for the Drauschifffahrt and the Drauradweg cycle path also leads past it.

Origin of name

The name of the Silbersee does not originally come from the lake of the same name in Karl May's novel Der Schatz im Silbersee , as is often wrongly assumed, but comes from the early days of the lake, when the water still contained very few organic suspended matter and the surroundings were a pure gravel landscape without Was greening. Then you could see the water shimmering silvery when the sun was low.

Animals in the silver lake

The following 12 fish species can be found in the Silbersee:

In the last few years, scuba divers have repeatedly observed noble crabs ( Astacus astacus ) in the Silbersee . The crayfish population, which has declined sharply in recent years, can be traced back to older stocking measures with crayfish from the Weissensee.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Silbersee (Carinthian Institute for Lake Research)