Walchsee (lake)
| Walchsee | ||
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| View over the lake in south direction | ||
| Geographical location | Tyrol , Austria | |
| Tributaries | Erzbach, Ramsbach, Moosbach | |
| Drain | Walchseebach → Weißenbach → Kohlenbach → Großache → Chiemsee | |
| Places on the shore | Walchsee | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 38 ′ 45 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 30" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 655 m above sea level A. | |
| surface | 95.3 ha | |
| length | 1.2 km | |
| width | 1.2 km | |
| volume | 11,782,560 m³ | |
| scope | 5.6 km | |
| Maximum depth | 21.2 m | |
| Middle deep | 12 m | |
| Catchment area | 26.3 km² | |
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| View over the lake in east direction | ||
The Walchsee is a lake near the town of the same name in Tyrol . It is entirely located in the Walchsee municipality, but the eastern bank belongs to the Kössen municipality . With an area of almost 1 km², it is the fourth largest natural lake in Tyrol.
geography
It is a trough valley lake of natural origin that lies between the Kaiser Mountains in the south and the Chiemgau Alps in the north. Its area is 95 ha, the maximum depth 21 m. The Walchsee has several tributaries, the most important of which is the Ramsbach, which rises in the Chiemgau Alps on Bavarian territory and flows into the north-western end of the lake. The runoff takes place on the east side via the only 500 m long Walchseebach into the Weißenbach, which in turn flows over the Kohlenbach into the Großache .
History and name
The lake was first mentioned as a sovereign property in the Bavarian Duke Surbar from 1280. As with the Bavarian Walchensee , the name has long been related to the Walchen , the Romanesque population that remained settled after the Bavarian conquest in the 5th century. The whale theory is seen more cautiously in recent science. "Walch" is considered an ambiguous part of the name. It can be used as a reference to "Romansh" (reference to the Romansh population still present in the early Middle Ages or as a geographical reference to a location which, from the eponymous observer, is from the direction of Welschland, but had no Romansh population itself at the time the name was given), or for "moist , lukewarm, mild "or also for" rolling, squeezing ". Both macro and microtoponomatics in the municipality of Kössen speak against the Walch theory. The area belongs to the areas of today's Tyrol that were the first to be colonized by Germans in the early Middle Ages by the Bavarian conquest of the land.
ecology
Around 64% of the catchment area consists of forests and near-natural areas, 26% is used for agriculture. The Walchsee is classified as oligotrophic to weakly mesotrophic, the visibility depth is (mean 2003-2005) 3.5 m. The sometimes low depths of view are not due to the high density of floating algae, but to organic particles such as dead and decomposed plant material or mineral particles. The (theoretical) water renewal time is 0.3 years.
Fish fauna
The fish species found in the Walchsee include pike , pikeperch , whitefish , carp , perch , trout and tench .
use
The water temperature reaches around 23 ° C in summer, which makes it a popular bathing lake. There are several bathing beaches and campsites on its banks. The lake is also popular for surfing, sailing, water skiing and fishing. The Walchsee is also the scene of sporting events such as the Triathlon Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl .
Say
According to a legend, there used to be a beautiful, productive forest at the site of the Walchsee, which several residents claimed for itself and thus became a bone of contention. A dairy woman who was walking through the forest one day to milk the cows on the other side saw a small pit filled with water on the way there. When she wanted to return, a large lake had spread out at the place of the forest. Another legend tells of an eerie sea torch, the soul of a betrayed girl who is said to have drowned herself with her unborn child in Walchsee.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f State survey service: Walchsee depth map (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ a b c d Federal Ministry of Health and Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Bathing water profile Walchsee, Uferpromenade. Vienna 2011 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 43 .
- ↑ Otto Mayr: The water names of North Tyrol and related names. In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum 6 (1927), p. 243 ( PDF; 4.1 MB )
- ↑ Jaqueline Reber: Structures and patterns in the world of names, quantitative and qualitative studies on the stock of toponyms of the two Solothurn offices of Dorneck-Thierstein and Olten-Gösgen . A. Francke, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7720-8533-8 , p. 216 .
- ↑ a b Federal Office for Water Management (Hrsg.): Atlas of the natural lakes of Austria with an area ≥ 50 ha. Morphometry - typing - trophy. As of 2005. Series of publications by the Federal Office for Water Management, Volume 29, Vienna 2008, pp. 102-104 ( PDF; 9 MB )
- ↑ Fishing in Tyrol in the Kaiserwinkl ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Office for Water Management, Institute for Aquatic Ecology, Fishery Biology and Seology (Ed.): The fish species communities of the great Austrian lakes. Comparison between historical and current situation. Fish ecological lake types. Publication series of the Federal Office for Water Management, Volume 18, Vienna 2003, p. 151 ( PDF; 2.8 MB ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ^ Legends from Tyrol . Collected and edited by Ignaz V. Zingerle, Innsbruck 1891, No. 641, pp. 364–365 ( online at haben.at )
- ↑ Anton Karg: Sagen aus dem Kaisergebirge , Kufstein 1926, p. 24 ( online at haben.at )
