Taferlsee
| Taferlsee | ||
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| The Taferlsee in autumn | ||
| Geographical location | Vilshofen on the Danube , Passau district , Bavaria | |
| Tributaries | Groundwater feed | |
| Drain | unnamed stream → Vils (Danube) | |
| Location close to the shore | Vilshofen on the Danube | |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 36 '30.3 " N , 13 ° 8' 33" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 330 m | |
| surface | 1.11 ha | |
| length | 130 m | |
| width | 120 m | |
| volume | 156,000 m³ | |
| Middle deep | 11 m | |
The Taferlsee is an artificial lake , which is located in the nature reserve Vils-Engtal 4.5 km southwest of the city of Vilshofen on the Danube in the district of Passau .
Surname
The name of the open pit lake comes from the field name Taferl. Although this corridor is actually located about four kilometers downstream to the left of the river, this name has nevertheless become common for the artificial body of water that remained after the industrial granite mining.
Emergence
When commercial granite mining began along the Vils in the middle of the 19th century, several quarries were built on both banks of the river, but in most of them there was no deep mining. The only exception was the Kahlhammer break near Liessing, which was founded around 1900. Its mining boiler was finally several meters below the level of the Vils. At the deepest point, the mining depth was even 20 meters. In order to prevent the ingress of groundwater, water had to be pumped out permanently, which from the mid-1930s onwards proved to be too uneconomical. Therefore the civil engineering was stopped and the quarry was filled with overburden in the following years, until the mining activity stopped in 1939, which ultimately reduced the depth of the lake to eleven meters.
"Taferl" station
The Vilshofen – Aidenbach railway line, opened in 1898, ran west of today's lake and was used to transport the mined granite away. The Taferl freight train stop was set up for this purpose . This was connected to the extensive field railway systems of the Kalhammer quarry and functioned as an important transshipment point. The stop was served daily by freight trains.