Dreiburgensee

The Dreiburgensee, formerly Rothauer lake, called Lake Rottauer and Rothaumühlweiher lies 2.5 km north- west of Tittling in the Bavarian Forest. It is named after the surrounding Dreiburgenland with the Saldenburg, Englburg and Książ. He is first mentioned in 1703. He had recently been created as a fish pond of the Field Marshal - Lieutenant Max Josef Graf von Tauffkirchen to Guttenburg, the owner of the Englburg.

Description

The pent-up lake has an area of ​​8 hectares and is a maximum of 7 meters deep. It has a length of 700 m and a maximum width of 200 m. The lake is located entirely in the municipality Tittling. The municipal border with Thurmansbang and the county boundary between the district of Passau and the Freyung -Grafenau runs along the western shore of the lake. On its southern side the main road is of Tittling to Thurmansbang, the lake is a popular trail in any season with two children's playgrounds and a barefoot path. In summer it is a popular swimming spot with restaurants, hotels, lawns and boats, in winter you can go skating and curling. The road embankment forms the dam. Directly on the lake lies the museum village Bavarian Forest, the largest open-air museum.

In 1973 the holiday Dreiburgensee was opened with about 350 beds directly on the western shore of the lake. Because of the good example of landscape -bound building received its owner Georg Höltl 1975, the Environmental Medal of the Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Affairs, and in 1976 the Order of Merit.

On the east bank, which opened in 1972 Seehof are the Tauer family with around 50 beds and the newly built hotel in Waldlerhaus style 1983 Dreiburgensee -east. 1981 decided due to increasing blue-green algae forming communities and government to rehabilitate the lake with the construction of a fully biological sewage treatment plant in balances castle.

Near the lake for a few years before coming beaver. In September 2009, the beaver dam on the fishing club Dreiburgenland was destroyed because of alleged fears for fish stocks of the three castle lake.