Titisee
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| View of the Titisee from the Hochfirst | ||
| Geographical location | Southern Black Forest | |
| Tributaries | Seebach | |
| Drain | Expert | |
| Location close to the shore | Titisee-Neustadt | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 53 '36 " N , 8 ° 8' 46" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 845.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 1.07 km² | |
| length | 1.87 km | |
| width | 750 m | |
| volume | 22,500,000 m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 39.0 m | |
| Middle deep | 20.5 m | |
| PH value | 7.3 | |
| Catchment area | 24.2 km² | |
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particularities |
Well-known health resort |
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The Titisee is a lake in the southern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg . It covers an area of 1.07 km 2 and is on average 20 m deep. It owes its formation to the Feldberg Glacier , whose moraines , which formed in the Pleistocene , form its banks today. It is fed by the Seebach that flows through the Bärental and rises from the Feldsee on the Seebuck , on the eastern slope of the Feldberg massif . The outflow of the lake at 840 m above sea level. NHN is the Gutach , which bears the name Wutach from the confluence with the Haslach below Kappel . The Titisee finally drains together with the Wutach between Tiengen and Waldshut into the Upper Rhine . The health resort of the same name , which is part of the city of Titisee-Neustadt, is located on the north bank . The south-western part is on the Hinterzarten district. The water quality of Lake Titisee is regularly checked at two bathing areas by the Baden-Württemberg State Agency for the Environment .
history
After two sarcophagi made of worked tuff stone were found under a hill at the outflow of the Gutach from the Titisee in 1840 , the archaeologist Andreas Haasis-Berner suspects in an essay published in 2011 that they must have come from the period between the years 700 and 900. The Black Forest was previously assumed to be uninhabited for the first millennium.
The first documentary records from 1050 can be found in the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen , where the name Titinsee is mentioned. The name Dettesee is also mentioned in a document from the Saig parish that dates from 1111. The name has been used in its current form since around 1750.
Origin of name
There are various theories about the origin of the strange name Titisee :
- In the Alemannic dialect called Teti child or infant. A Tetisee or Titisee would then be a lake from which, according to local legend, the small children come, as it is said elsewhere that the rattle stork would bring the children. Stories about the origins of children in lakes were quite widespread in Central Europe (see also Frau-Holle-Teich ). This theory fits that the Titisee is a very high lake and according to the legend it should be infinitely deep. Such lakes were previously ascribed special numinous powers.
- According to another theory, the Roman general Titus is said to have camped in the area on the Titisee. He seems to have liked the lake so much that he gave it his name. This is also the reason why the rough replica of a Roman galley operates on Lake Titisee today .
- According to a legend, a gentleman is said to have hunted Titini in the area around the lake in the 12th century.
- The Arum , formerly known as Tittele in the region , can also be used as a namesake, even if it no longer occurs on Lake Titisee today.
Say
- According to legend, the Titisee is considered to be of immeasurable and imperceptible depth. When trying to measure, a voice sounds from the depths (depending on the source): “If you fathom me, I will drown you.”, “If you want to measure me, I will eat you.” Or “If you measure me, I will devour you ! ”The same is said about the Feldsee . According to a legend, there is supposed to be an "underground" connection with the Ursee . There are similar legends about the Mummelsee .
- According to an old tradition, the Titisee is located on the site of a city sunk in the floods, which perished as a punishment for the fact that its inhabitants committed bread crimes. They hollowed out loaves of bread to use as shoes.
- The only thing that keeps the lake from leaking is an old woman's white hood. Every year a thread of the hood rots, so that at some point the entire Dreisamtal is flooded by the lake. (In fact, the Titisee drains to the northeast via the Gutach into the Wutach and not to the northwest into the Dreisamtal.)
fauna and Flora
In the nutrient-poor and crystal-clear Lake Titisee like an "open water aquarium" there are large predatory fish ( pikeperch , lake trout and a large population of pike ), schooling fish ( whitefish , roach and perch ) as well as carp , chub and tench in shallow areas. This biodiversity is supplemented by brown trout , char and rainbow trout in the mouth areas of the brooks and by eels and tadpoles (Trüsche) on the bottom. Additional small fish species are moderlieschen , minnow and brook lamprey . Flocks of roach and chub are increasingly found at the exit of the promenade, where passers-by feed water birds with bread. While carp only occur sporadically and do not reach record weights, tench, on the other hand, which develops well in the muddy inlet area of the lake stream, can reach weights of up to 2.5 kilograms. The whitefish, called "whitefish" in the Black Forest region, was introduced in 1945 when the Titiseehotel dumped the fish that it kept alive into the lake in protest against the French occupiers. Gray herons can also be seen around the lake . On the shores of Lake Titisee, the rare bream herbs grow, among other things, prickly bream ( Isoëtes echinospora ) and sea bream (Isoëtes lacustris).
icing
The Titisee takes a long time to freeze in winter . This is due to the winds, which almost always keep the water surface in motion. In order for the ice cover to be released for walking, the thickness of the core ice must be at least 16 cm ( core ice , also called compact ice , is stable and contains almost no air bubbles).
If there is a prospect of approval, measurements are carried out daily by the building yard of the city of Titisee-Neustadt at three to four measuring points. If a release is possible and has been approved by those responsible, certain delimited areas of the lake will be released, but never the entire lake.
This regulation was introduced after an accident had previously occurred: At that time the lake was used as a runway for flight days. A tractor with a snow plow was used to clear the track . The tractor broke through the ice sheet on January 14, 1966 and sank into the lake with the Bühlhof farmer Walter Wilde (29). The body could not be found until two weeks later.
In 1925, German championships in speed skating, ice hockey, ice shooting and tobogganing as well as the first ice hockey game in the Black Forest took place on the Titisee at short notice. The planned venue in Altona had to withdraw due to bad weather conditions. Up until 1958 there were ice hockey games on the frozen Titisee until the ice rink was built at Hermeshof .
Facilities at the Titisee
The Titisee is the home port of the Freiburg rescue diving group Pinguin .
literature
- Hans Schmider (Hrsg.): Titisee-Chronik: the history of the Titisees and its residents . Self-rel. H. Schmider, Titisee-Neustadt 2004, OCLC 314864708 .
- Hans Schmider, Alexander Möllinger (eds.): Titiseer Bilderchronik: History in pictures from "Vierthäler" to Titisee-Neustadt . Self-rel. Schmider, Titisee-Neustadt 2012, OCLC 827052969 .
- Titisee profile. (PDF) Institute for Lake Research of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, July 2015, accessed on August 23, 2020 .
- Titisee . In: State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Institute for Lake Research (Ed.): ISF work report 2018 . Karlsruhe February 2020, OCLC 1021225362 , chap. 3.2, p. 67–82 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-147064 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany: Part 10 Baden-Württemberg (PDF; 411 KB)
- ↑ Description of the Titisee Strandbad. In: List of monitored bathing areas. LUBW , 2020, accessed August 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Description of the Titisee sandbank. In: List of monitored bathing areas. LUBW, 2020, accessed August 22, 2020 .
- ^ Andreas Haasis-Berner: Das Rätsel vom Titisee , In: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden , Issue 80/81
- ↑ Peter Stellmach: Titisee-Neustadt: The city almost missed its 900th anniversary: Quick, quick, Titisee is celebrating its birthday! , Badische Zeitung, February 25, 2011, accessed June 23, 2011
- ↑ Article Kinderherkunft, hand dictionary of German superstitions , Berlin 2006, digital library 145, Directmedia, p. 1350.
- ↑ a b Information board directly on the lake
- ↑ a b c Bernhard Baader : The Titisee . In: Heinrich Schreiber : The folk tales of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , Franz Xaver Wrangler, Freiburg im Breisgau 1867, pp. 99-101
- ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald, self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 498 f.
- ↑ a b c Martin Wehrle: Black forest and bright fishing pleasure. Pp. 22-26. Blinker, October 10, 2008
- ^ Richard Pott: Biotope Types . Habitats worth protecting in Germany and neighboring regions. Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1996, ISBN 978-3-8001-3484-7 , pp. 55 .
- ↑ Hans Schmider: Titisee Chronicle - The history of the Titisees and its residents . Self-published by Hans Schmider, Titisee-Neustadt 2004.
- ↑ titisee-neustadt.de - history. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Researching frogmen. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Badenova-Magazin. February 2012, archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 .
- ^ Website of the rescue divers Freiburg