Egelsee (Tyrol)

Natural monument, FFH

The Egelsee is the northeast of Kufstein Lake, he is right on the German -Austrian border. The lake is considered because of its lake and pond roses as a protected area, there is a ban on swimming.

Location and landscape

The Thierberg lakes ( Pfrillsee, aL, Hechtsee, Egelsee ) are tectonic phenomena, small collapse basin that may have been favored by cavities or other karst phenomena. The Inn Valley glacier, however, she had dispelled in the last Ice Age, carved out and dammed by moraine and meltwater sediments.

Flora and Fauna

A special feature are the large stocks of protected Yellow pond lily (Nuphar lutea ) and the good stock of dragonflies.

The Egelsee has extensive reed bank, and silted up and on. He has now already lost about a third of its original size. In this constantly damp silt zone is quaking, and stocks of Rundblättrigem Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) and cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos ), as well as in Tirol rare cutting rush ( Cladium mariscus ).

To the southeast lies a wide wet meadow with purple moor grass ( Molinia caerulea).

Conservation

The lake is since 1936 a designated natural monument ( Egelsee with shore area, ND_5_10 ), since 1978, the bank area. The protected area covers 4.53 hectares. He also was registered in June 2000 in the list of special areas of conservation, the extent of 3.07 ha ( the shore environment less extended some) (code Site: AT3307000 ) as a conservation area under the Habitats Directive.