Silbersee (Roxheim)
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| Silbersee (rear) with Scharrau Island (peninsula); in front the front Roxheimer Altrhein (left) and the (smaller) rear Roxheimer Altrhein (right) | ||
| Geographical location | Bobenheim-Roxheim , Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Location close to the shore | Worms , Frankenthal , Ludwigshafen | |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 34 '45 " N , 8 ° 23' 5" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 86.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 1.2 km² | |
| length | 2.5 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
| scope | 8 kilometers | |
| Maximum depth | 10 m or 13.5 m | |
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particularities |
second largest lake in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Silver Lake area of Palatine local church Bobenheim-Roxheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is a quarry pond , which by degradation of gravel and sand the left of the inside area of the loop Rhein located Roxheimer Old Rhine has arisen and still arises. In the Silbersee lies the island of Scharrau , which despite its name is only a peninsula . Its lake landscape is located in several protected areas along with the Old Rhine .
geography
location
The Silbersee is located in the Upper Rhine Plain in the extreme north-east of the Palatinate and that of the Vorderpfalz . It spreads about 3 km west of the Rhine in the municipality of Bobenheim-Roxheim - east of the Roxheim district and southeast of the Bobenheim district.
Natural allocation
The lake landscape of Silbersee and Roxheimer Altrhein belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Northern Upper Rhine Lowland (No. 22) and in the main unit Northern Upper Rhine Lowland (222) to the subunit Mannheim-Oppenheimer Rhine Lowland (222.1). Directly to the west of the main unit of the Vorderpfälzer Tiefland (221) is the Frankenthaler Terrasse (221.80) natural area , which does not belong to any sub-unit.
Seascape
The young quarry pond and part of the former loop of the Rhine, today's Roxheimer Altrhein, now form a spatial unit - a multi-part lake landscape. These include the wide Altrhein with the larger Vorderen Roxheimer Altrhein and the smaller Hinterer Roxheimer Altrhein (both in the southwest), the large water area of the Silbersee (in the middle) and the two-part Große Ochsenlache (in the northeast). The two lake-like parts of the Old Rhine are separated from the Silbersee by the former river bend on the east bank, which functions as a dam, and are also separated from each other by another dam. The former loop of the river has long since lost its connection to the Rhine, which flows by on average around 3 km east of the lake landscape. Coming from the Frankenthal district of Mörsch , the Isenach river , which is also called Mörschbach and is not physically connected to the surrounding water, runs within the two dams . The names of the old bend in the river indicate that it originated from an arm of the Old Rhine, the name Hintere Roxheimer Altrhein stands for the greater distance from the Roxheim district. There are other small lakes a little north of this lake landscape.
Characteristics
The total area of the Silbersee, the two parts of the Old Rhine and other smaller quarry ponds, which are directly adjacent, is more than 3 km², of which the area of the Silbersee - depending on the water level - alone makes up 1.1 to 1.3 km². This makes it the second largest lake in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Laacher See . Depending on the data source, the maximum depth is 10 m or 13.5 m; the different information could be due to the seasonally changing water level.
Protected areas
In the area of the lake landscape of Silbersee and Roxheimer Altrhein, which is part of the Rhineland-Palatinate project Natura 2000 , there are three nature reserves: Hinterer Roxheimer Altrhein ( CDDA No. 81883; NSG No. 7338-101; designated in 1966; 42.26 ha large) with adjoining Ochs pool (CDDA No. 82274;. NSG No. 7338-025;., 1979; 10.63 ha) and Front Roxheimer Altrhein-Krumbeeräcker (CDDA No. 166,100;. NSG No. 7338-012;., 1988; 24.88 ha). The lake landscape is located in the Pfälzische Rheinauen landscape protection area (CDDA no. 323853; 1961; 208.3263 km² ) and in the Bobenheimer and Roxheimer Altrhein bird sanctuary with Silbersee (VSG no. 6416-401; 4.04 km²). Only the two parts of the Old Rhine are parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Rhine lowlands Ludwigshafen-Worms (FFH no. 6416-301; 3.79 km²).
A rich bird fauna shows loyalty to its location all year round. In addition, even in the cold season, the mostly ice-free water areas are attractive for migratory birds as resting places or winter quarters.
use
Gravel and sand have been mined in the area of the Altrheinschleife since the first half of the 20th century; According to mining law , which gives priority to the extraction of mineral resources , attempts to noticeably restrict or even stop mining with respect to the protected areas on site were always doomed to failure.
Several footpaths run within the lake landscape. In a leisure facility in the southern area, 37,000 m² of beach are laid out, which is managed by the Erholungsgebiet in den Rheinauen e. V. are maintained and managed. In addition to swimming, sailing and surfing are also possible there. The two former world-class windsurfers Anja Müller (* 1967) and her even more successful sister Jutta (* 1968), who came from Bobenheim-Roxheim, trained on the Silbersee while they were active.
The use of the Silbersee and its surroundings is a controversial topic within the community of Bobenheim-Roxheim. In particular, there is disagreement as to whether, in addition to a small country hotel, which has been in operation since 1989 in the Roxheim district on the western edge of the Altrheinschlinge, a large hotel should be built in the Silbersee on the Scharrau island. The fact that this new hotel is planned by the company that is responsible for the previous intensive gravel and sand mining is causing discomfort. Environmentalists fear that the creation of the infrastructure necessary for the hotel project, especially the road construction, would be at the expense of nature. A citizens' survey by the municipal administration, non-binding, but organized according to the rules of a referendum , showed a majority in favor of the new hotel building in February 2007 ; the vote was implemented in a corresponding municipal council resolution in the same year, revising a decision to the contrary from 2006.
Transport links
The Silbersee is connected to traffic via the Berliner Straße , which branches off to the east on the western edge of Roxheim from Landesstraße 523 ( Frankenthal - Worms ) and which merges into Industriestraße . The latter turns into Kreisstraße 1, which leads south past the lake landscape and then on to the Petersau estate on the Rhine ; in between, a driveway branches off from the K1, which runs north along the Isenach to the parking lot at the Silbersee. Because the K1 crosses Bundesstraße 9 ( Ludwigshafen –Worms) at the Bobenheim-Roxheim / Petersau exit in the east , the Silbersee can also be reached from these two cities. In addition, 2 km south of the lake, the B 9 forms a traffic junction with the federal motorway 6 ( Kaiserslautern - Mannheim ) at the Ludwigshafen-Nord / Worms junction.
Web links
- Silbersee , with general information, at bobenheim-roxheim.de
- Silbersee, Bobenheim-Roxheim , with information on the bathing waterprofile, at the MULEWF , on badeseen.rlp.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Silver Lake. Water sports club Roxheim, accessed on September 30, 2011 (menu item Our home area ).
- ↑ a b Silbersee, Bobenheim-Roxheim , with information on the bathing water profile , at the MULEWF , on badeseen.rlp.de
- ^ LANIS: Basic geographic information. 2009, accessed March 27, 2014 .
- ↑ … Landscape Information System Rhineland-Palatinate. Nature Conservation Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on September 30, 2011 . LANIS-RLP, on naturschutz.rlp.de
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Citizens' Initiative SilberSee - BISS: Current! (No longer available online.) October 29, 2007, archived from the original on June 24, 2013 ; Retrieved September 30, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
