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As glacial lakes lakes are referred to in the Dachstein mountains in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. They form the Gletscherendseen the retreating Hallstatt glacier.

Location and landscape

The Eissen located about 3 kilometers north-east of the Dachstein Summit, north of the 2794 m high Gjaidstein at an altitude of around 2000 meters.

(Bottom ) ice lake

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Gletscherend-/Moränensee; Altitude date 1907

The (lower ) ice lake located at 1909 m above sea level. A. in a flat Kar, the Taubenkar. It was formed by melting of the Dachstein glacier, which is still handed down to about the middle of the 19th century to 1800 m. As the glaciers retreated (today is the tongue at about 2200 m), remained in the basin back to the Lower Ice Lake because the Moränenschotter is lined with Kalkschluff here. 1890 still a Toteisscholle, the lake in 1894 is the first proven times, and was mapped in 1896 by M. Groller, since he had essentially its present size

For a long time after its formation, at about the turn of the century were to be found on its banks greater Toteisfelder, today they are gone. The Lower Ice Lake has neither aboveground to, even a drain, and silted up from the mountain side growing.

Upper (r ) ice lake (s)

The Upper Ice Lake, and Little Ice Lake, the Lower ice sea was about 700 meters to the west at an altitude of about 2070 m above sea level. A. ( ⊙ 47.49454513.6251852070 ) below the Simonyhütte and the roof stone chapel, the ice -Joch ( 2150 m). It was created due to the continued retreat of the glacier during the 20th century. In 1921 the ice had withdrawn so far for the first time that an initially small lake formed at its end. This grew by further melting rapidly to about 100 × 50 meters with up to ten meters deep, but shrank in the meantime due to the weather again on only one-fifth that size. In 1951, he covered an area of ​​4 ha, at this time the glacier calved still in the lake. Meanwhile, the ice has retreated far from the shore, in the 2010s to 1000 meters.

The Upper Ice Lake has been divided by the silting up into several small lakes, of which the largest nurmehr includes almost 2000 m2 ( 2062 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49515513.6266422062, 2059 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49374213.6253142059, 2072 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49561813.6248412072, 2061 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49311113.623842061, 2073 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49201113.6235932073 ).

Other lakes

In the Nachbartalung the upper lakes, on the southeast side of the egg - yoke directly above the lower Ice Lake, there is another nameless Gletscherendsee ( 2116 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49019513.6294672116 ).

Older glacial retreat lakes were down to the mid 20th century in the lower valley Taubenkar at the dilapidated huts ( 2116 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.50476713.6358852116 ) and below (1820 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.5058513.6355851820, 1823 m above sea level. A. 47.50707513.6349851823 ⊙ ), and in the Zirm pit (1793 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.50833513.639231793 ).

In addition, can be found directly east at the southern foot of the Near Gjaidstein ( 2414 m ) nor a Gletscherrestsee without a name ( 2380 m above sea level. A. ⊙ 47.49210513.650112380 ).

Conservation

The group of lakes is situated in Europe reserve Dachstein (FFH / BSG, AT3101000/EU02 ) and in the nature reserve Dachstein in the communities Gosau, Hallstatt and Obertraun ( N098 ), and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut ( WHS 806). The Dachstein is also a water sanctuary.