Lake Toma

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Lag da Toma / Lai da Tuma / Lake Toma
Tomasee 4.JPG
View over the lake to the west
Geographical location canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons GR CHSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Tributaries In there Tuma
Drain In there Tuma
Data
Coordinates 694 461  /  165326 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '57 "  N , 8 ° 40' 20"  O ; CH1903:  694 461  /  165326
Tomasee (Gotthard Group)
Lake Toma
Altitude above sea level 2344  m above sea level M.
surface 2.5 ha
length 338 m
width 145 m
Maximum depth 10 m
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The Tomasee , Romansh Lag da Toma or Lai da Tuma , is a lake in the canton of Graubünden in the Swiss Alps . The Rein da Tuma flows through it and lies in the Gotthard Group at 2344  m above sea level. M. , below the Badus , not far from Tschamut / Sedrun and near the Oberalp Pass .

The lake from the west

The Tomasee belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Vorderrhein and is regarded as a source of the Rhine . The 1200 meter long brook that flows into the lake is already referred to as the Rhine in the directory of the Swiss Federal Office for Topography .

Lake Toma is part of the federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance in Switzerland. In winter the lake freezes over and is covered in snow.

Surname

The name comes from Romansh . It refers to the topographical location of the lake: With “Tuma” for hill, the name means “lake near the hill”, thus describing its location in a depression.

Access

An unproblematic hiking trail marked as a Swiss mountain trail leads from the Oberalp Pass to the lake in around two hours. A more strenuous, longer route leads from the Oberalp Pass over the Pazolastock ( 2739  m above sea level ) to Lake Tomas.

The Badushütte is 150 meters above the lake .

Legends about the Tomasee

The source of the Rhine is a mystical place full of legends . There is, for example, the story of a special guardian of the area of ​​Lake Toma , the Pazola male . A mermaid is also said to live in Lake Toma. The spring mermaid Mariuschla once made sure that there was always enough water in the spring. And the fairy from Lake Tomasee also has a special task at the foot of the Badus.

Web links

Commons : Tomasee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SwissTopo (maps of Switzerland)
  2. ↑ Swiss Geoportal. In: geo.admin.ch. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, accessed on October 4, 2016 (click on the stream at Martschallücke).
  3. ↑ Foundation Vier-Quellen-Weg (Ed.): Four-sources-way in the Gotthard massif . Altdorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-906200-46-0 , pp. 11 ( vier-quellen-weg.ch [PDF; accessed on October 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Hiking site: The Four Sources Path in the Gotthard massif