Vättern

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Vättern
Lake Vättern.png
Map of Lake Vättern
Geographical location Sweden
Tributaries Forsviksån, Tabergsån, Huskvarnaån
Drain Motala stream
Places on the shore Jonkoping
Data
Coordinates 58 ° 18 '  N , 14 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 18 '  N , 14 ° 28'  E
Vättern (Västra Götaland)
Vättern
Altitude above sea level 88.6  m ö.h.
surface 1 885.98  km²
length 135 km
width 31 km
volume 73.483 km³dep1
scope 550 km
Maximum depth 120 m
Middle deep 39.5 m
Catchment area 6380 km²

Vättern (German Vättersee , from old Swedish vætur for lake, body of water ) is the second largest lake in Sweden and is drained by the Motala stream into the Baltic Sea. The name is first recorded around 1220 in the form " Wetur ". The Vättern is connected to the Vänern via the Göta Canal .

In the north the lake is on average 25 meters deep, in the south it is more than 100 meters deep.

The largest town on Lake Vättern is Jönköping with Huskvarna on the southern shore of the lake. Other cities are Motala , Askersund , Karlsborg and Hjo . In the southern part, the island of Visingsö is directly opposite the small town of Gränna .

Every year in June there is a cycling tour around Lake Vättern for everyone, Vätternrundan . The tour begins and ends in Motala and covers a distance of over 300 kilometers. There is an official time measurement, but no ranking is derived from it.

Trivia

The lake is the namesake for a bathroom furniture series by the Swedish furniture company IKEA .

gallery

  • Sauna on the frozen lake

  • View from Omberg over Lake Vättersee

  • Vättern from space

  • South-eastern part of Vättern, from Brunstorp, part of Huskvarna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sjöareal och sjöhöjd (3.32 MB; PDF) , Svenskt vattenarkiv (SVAR), Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)
  2. ↑ a b Vattenståndsmätningar i Vättern (PDF; 722 kB) ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bizmet.smhi.se
  3. ↑ a b c Sjödjup och sjövolym (712.6 kB; PDF) , Svenskt vattenarkiv (SVAR), Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)
  4. ↑ Kust och stränder i Sverige (407 kB; PDF) , Statistiska centralbyrån ( http://www.scb.se ) (Swedish)
  5. ↑ VattenWeb , Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (Swedish)
  6. ↑ Svenskt local dictionary . Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet (SOFI), Uppsala, 2003. p. 374. ISBN 91-7229-020-X
  7. ↑ FOCUS Online: Ikea names: Where do "Billy" and "Ivar" come from? In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on May 25, 2018]).

Web links

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