Silsersee

Lej da Segl ; Silsersee
	Lake Sils, view towards Maloja
Geographical location	Upper Engadine
Tributaries	Inn , Aua da Fedoz
Drain	Inn , to Lake Silvaplana ; called Sela
Places on the shore	Maloja , Sils Maria
	Data
Coordinates	776 207 / 143 164 coordinates: 46 ° 25 '0 " N , 9 ° 43' 51" O ; CH1903: seven hundred seventy-six thousand two hundred and seven / 143 164
Altitude above sea level	1796.61 m above sea level M.
surface	4.1
volume	0.137 km³
scope	14.994 km
Maximum depth	71 m
	Silsersee

The Silsersee ( Romansh: Lej da Segl ^?^/^I ) - named after the village of Sils im Engadin / Segl - is the most south-westerly of the three in the Upper Engadine lying lakes of the Engadine lakes .

location

The lake is located at almost 1800 meters above sea level between the villages of Sils (east) and Maloja (west). The valley road between the two places runs on the northern, slightly less wooded bank. The southern bank is not continuously navigable. There is the Maiensäss Isola on an embankment . This backfill roughly in the middle of the lake occurs through the inflow of the Aua da Fedoz from the hardly developed Val Fedoz . This southern side valley extends south for about nine kilometers to Piz Fora . There are no side valleys north of the lake, but the Grevaselvas Maiensäss, known from a Heidi film .

Leisure and traffic

The lake is popular with windsurfers who are supported by the Maloja wind from the Maloja Pass . There is also a sailing school in Plaun da Lej, and three to four times a day a motorboat moored in Sils Maria, Chastè, Plaun da Lej, Isola and Maloja. This regular service has existed since 1907, and for 50 years the scheduled ship Sils has been piloting Captain Franco, who says that it is the highest scheduled ship line in Europe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first came to the lake in July 1881 and spent a total of seven summers in Sils Maria until 1888 , where he rented a room on the first floor of the Durisch family and worked on numerous of his works, including the second part of Thus spoke Zarathustra . He had found a place here in a landscape that was, in his own words, "blood-related" that offered him the opportunity to concentrate and rest in the best climate. He gave the landscape around the lake the name "Perla perlissima" ("pearl of pearls"). In his former home, today's Nietzsche House , there is a museum where, among other things, original writings, letters and first editions can be viewed.

Sils balls

Sils balls are agglomerations of larch needles , which arise naturally and reach a diameter of up to 20 cm. These larch needle balls can only be found in Sils (near St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine / Switzerland).

The larches are not evergreen and shed their needles in autumn. The larch needles from trees near the bank fall into Lake Sils or are blown there, favored by the constant, often strong, valley wind. The larch needles are then driven to the bank and formed into small balls by the constant rolling back and forth, which gradually get bigger and bigger. In autumn these balls are washed ashore, especially in the bays of Lake Sils.

The Sils balls can only be found in Sils, only in autumn and only from larch needles. The local cafés offer the artistically modeled Sils balls as a confectionery specialty.