Lake St. Moritz

The St. Moritz ( Romansh: Lej da San Murezzan ) in the Upper Engadine is the easternmost and smallest of the four lakes in the Engadine lakes. How Sils, Silvaplana and the Lej da Champfèr flows through it from the Inn. It is situated on 1'768 meters above sea level. M.. The center of St. Moritz is situated high above the North Shore, located at its western end the healing springs in St. Moritz-Bad.

Notoriety the lake has especially gained, because in the winter when it is frozen, take place on the ice numerous occasions. These include horse racing White Turf, which takes place in February each. More than 200 tons of material to be placed on the ice for this purpose, which must be at least 30 inches thick. The route of the Engadin Ski Marathon runs across the lake.

The lake is sandwiched between Piz Rosatsch ( 3,123 m above sea level. M. ) in the south and Piz Nair ( 3'056 m above sea level. M. ) in the north. North of the lake obstructed a tie the Inn valley, through which the river has cut a narrow exit to the Charnadüra Gorge. Right at the outlet from the lake of the Inn crashed earlier over a waterfall, which no longer exists today. Since 1887, the lake is used for electricity production. The water runoff is directed to a power plant at the bottom of Charnadüra in Celerina.

With the advent of tourism, St. Moritz has increasingly extended to the lake. In 1904, the station of the Rhaetian Railway, the terminus of the Albula line, opened at the mouth on the north shore. Yet undeveloped majority are still the southern shore areas as well as the eastern end of the lake, which stretches for Stazerwald.

Pictures

St. Moritz Bad in 1900

Eastern part of the lake