Egelsee (Kärnten)
The Egelsee ( formerly called Ecksee ) is a bog lake in Carinthia, Austria, and is situated on the hills (650 m above sea level. A. ) between Millstaetter lake and the lower Drau Valley. Accessible is the small forest lake of Molzbichl and Roth Thurn, from the south shore of Lake Millstatt from or about the trails at Lake Millstädter - back. The nature reserve of water owes its name not the non-existent leeches, but is derived from the original name " Ecksee " from.
Description
The bog lake with an area of 9.35 ha is completely surrounded by rocking on the water quaking bog. Due to its location in the midst of a vast moor his water color is deep brown. The bog acids lead to a low pH. Botanical features are the Papillentorfmoos, the carnivorous round-leaved sundew and langblättrige and the water hose, the Alpenrose, which distinction digestion wool grass, bog rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia ) or the bog berry. All stages of bog formation can be observed at Egelsee. A zoological peculiarity is the occurrence of plankton -hopper -form. Originally there were no fish in this lake. In spring to early summer a myriad of larvae of the grass frog and the small pond frog are found.
The Millstättersee - back, a 2 km wide and 13 km long, polished by the last Ice Age to rolling hills barrier between the Millstaetter lake ( 588 m) in the north and the Drau Valley (about 530 m ) in the south, is largely a conservation area, which is located in the municipal area of seabed, Spittal an der Drau and remote village. The south shore of Lake Millstatt is natural as opposed to the North Shore in many parts and virtually uninhabited. The shortest path from the pin Millstatt the Drau Valley - Lake Millstatt was here crossed by boat - went some distance east past the Egelsees. Remnants of the old flagstone pathway are still found.
Section by section, the ridge plateau-like and has some sinks, in which there are bogs and also the Egelsee. In about 800 meters from Egelsee is the highest elevation, the Hochgosch ( 875 m). Viewpoints into the Drau are the " Lug ins Land" and the cross- stone. The highest elevations in the west is the wolf mountain ( 804 m) and to the east of the Geißriegel ( 988 m). The water outflow of Lake Millstatt via the Seebach in the Lieser. This cuts through the sea back from north to south in a ravine, whose output is the county town of Spittal in the Drau Valley. In the rocks of Lake Ridge Millstaetter some pegmatite lenses are stored, which occur more frequently among others at Wolfsberg, Hochgosch and Hahnenkofel. The mineral was mined as feldspar for the ceramic industry at the beginning of Lieser gorge and at Wolfsberg until the recent past. A smaller deposits are found near the Laggerhofes. On the Drautalerseite about Roth Thurn also Noric iron was mined in ancient times, which occupy derelict tunnels and the discovery of a Celtic processing plant in Baldersdorf.
About a kilometer away from the Egelsee on the trail to the church " St. Wolfgang at the Fratres " is the Cross Stone (830 m). This " blood stone " is said to be the blood of the court Millstaetter Jesuits. Several years carved figures (1653, 1660, 1766, 1792) with crosses and a directional trough for the head of the condemned suggest this assumption. However, the rule Millstatt has already been adopted in 1773 by the state.