Egelsee (Bubikon)

The Egelsee is surrounded by conservation areas, protected moorland lake and is located in the municipality of Bubikon in the Zurich Oberland.

Formation

During the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago, the Rhine / Linth glaciers shaped the landscape in the Zurich Oberland. A side crawled from Lake Zurich up to the upper Glatt valley. In its melt-back, he left many trough-shaped trays with numerous small lakes, so-called kettle holes. Many of these lakes silted up, only a few remained, one of which is the Egelsee. Its surface mass originally 650,000 square meters and its size is now shrunk to just 35,000 m².

In 1991, the lake and the surrounding moor with the inventory number 110 was on the list of high - and transitional mires of recorded in 1994 as number 80 in the list of the fens of national importance and national importance.

Beach

On the eastern shore is a beach. The season runs from early May to late September. The bathhouse is accessible by public transport or by car.

Landscape Path

Since 2001, begins with the Badi Egelsee a countryside path, which leads widely around the adjacent nature reserve. The walk is about 2 kilometers long and takes about an hour. On eight theme boards animals and plants are described, demonstrated the interactions between agriculture and nature conservation and described the genesis of this marshland next to the former use.