Großer Kranichsee

The Great Kranichsee (Czech: Velké jeřábí Jezero ) is one of the most under conservation fells in the Erzgebirge.

Location

The raised bog is located at an altitude of 950 m above sea level in a clearing in the high forest southwest of Carl field. Due to the high moor, the boundary between Germany and the Czech Republic. West of Crane Lake, there was the Black Pool.

Name

The name of the bog is associated with the Slavic word for granica border context.

Importance

It is a watershed and krummholz raised bog is drained to the northwest by the Great Pyramids, and to the southeast by the Rolava. In an easterly direction there are the little Kranichsee whose bog core as opposed to the Great Kranichsee is located on the German side of the border.

Vegetation

• Mountain Pine ( Pinus mugo )
• Vaginal cotton grass ( Eriophorum vaginatum )
• Crowberry ( Empetrum nigrum)
• Bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum )
• Bog rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia )

Fauna

• Adder (Vipera berus )
• Viviparous lizard ( Lacerta vivipara )

Tourism

Back in 1900 put the Erzgebirgszweigverein Carl field a corduroy road in the swamp and built a lookout framework that existed only a few years. The raised bog is protected.