Turracher See
Turracher See | ||
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Geographical location | Turracherhöhe | |
Drain | Vorderer Seebach (Turrach) | |
Places on the shore | Turracherhöhe , Stadl-Predlitz (Styria), Reichenau in Carinthia | |
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Coordinates | 46 ° 55 '8 " N , 13 ° 52' 35" E | |
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Altitude above sea level | 1780 m above sea level A. | |
surface | 19,433 9 ha | |
volume | 2,644,477 m³ | |
Maximum depth | 33 m | |
Middle deep | 13.6 m | |
Catchment area | 2.2 km² |
The Turracher See or Turrachsee is a mountain lake on the Turracher Höhe on the border between Carinthia and Styria .
description
The lake is 19.4 hectares in size and 33 meters deep at its deepest point in the southeast corner, the average depth is 13.6 meters. Due to its location at 1,780 meters above sea level (lake surface), it is covered with an ice layer up to one meter thick on average for six months a year. In summer it reaches a maximum temperature of 18 ° C. It is therefore hardly used as a bathing lake; The exception is a 10 × 25 meter area on the south bank, which is separated from the lake by a hotel with 3.5 meter high side walls and within which the water is brought to 28 to 30 ° C by means of heat pumps .
The Turracher See is fed by a stream flowing into the west bank and by marsh meadows. The outflow (75 l / s) takes place as the Vorderer Seebach in the north, which joins the Hinterer Seebach coming from the Turracher Schwarzsee to form the Turrach , which flows northwards through the Turracher tributary valley and finally flows into the Mur in Predlitz .
Since the lake was heavily polluted by the surrounding tourist businesses, the Turracher See was the first Carinthian lake on which a sewer system was installed.
The Carinthian part is now part of the Salzburg Lungau and Carinthian Nockberge biosphere reserve . In the east lies the Schwarzsee . A little further away in a southerly direction is the Grünsee .
Animals in the Turracher See
Only the following six fish species occur in the Turracher See:
- Brown trout ( Salmo tutta f. Fario )
- Brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis )
- Minnow ( Phoxinus phoxinus )
- Perch ( Perca fluviatilis )
- Lake trout ( Salmo trutta f. Lacustris )
- Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus )
While trout, arctic char and minnows are indigenous fish species, it is only recently that perch have unintentionally entered the lake with other fish.