Lake Velence
Warmest lake in Europe
The Velencei See ( Hungarian: Velencei -tó, German: Welenzer lake ) is the third natural lake of Hungary.
Location
The lake is at 103 m, approximately halfway between Lake Balaton ( Balaton ), and 40 km from the capital Budapest in Fejér county. The lake is 10.8 km long, between 1.5 and 3.5 km wide, and covers an area of 24.9 square kilometers. His environment is similar to the Velencei Mountains and its 352 -meter-high Meleg - Hegy ( to German warm mountain ) in the north, and shallow shores to the south, Lake Balaton, because the Velencei lake lies in the continuation of its tectonic trench.
The lake
With an average depth of only 1.60 meters Velencei the lake is shallow. The lowest point lies at a little over three meters. Apart from smaller tributaries it is particularly dependent on rain as a water supply as steppe. But this is because of the northern mountain range of mostly because the rising warm air masses here Keep the moist air layers. In a cycle of about 150 years, the lake is almost dry. 1843 have held an entire maneuver in the dried lake bed Hussars. In 1993, the water moved back up to 50 meters from the shore. With high cost was artificially pumped water, but only a winter rainy season filled the lake back up to its present level. The entire lake surface is traversed about a third of reed beds. In heavily reeded northwest extends over a large area which is accessible only by special permit bird sanctuary. On the northeast shore near the village of Velencei a 2300 meter long and 140 meter wide regatta course for competitions of canoe and rowing.
The lake is considered to be the warmest in Europe, as the water warms in the summer months at temperatures 26-28 ° C. Southern, eastern and north-eastern shores offer many swimming. The tourist centers are the places Velencei, and Gárdony Agárd. The lake is on the north shore between Pákozd and Sukoró the Szúnyogsziget peninsula ( = Mosquito Island) with an arboretum.
History
The name Velencei not appear until the 15th century. According to the Italian Antonio BONFINI, a historian of King Mathias, takes its name from being moved here inhabitants of the Veneto back ( the Hungarian name for Venice is Velencei ). Before that it was called Fertő, which means something like swamp or slough called.
On September 29, 1848, the first and victorious battle of the Hungarian war of independence was north of the lake, at Pákozd discharged against the Habsburgs. A plaque in the church of Sukoró reminded today of it. On the eve of battle stopped here the first Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány an important speech. In a survey on the north shore reminds a simple obelisk to the scene of the battle.
As a recreation area of the lake in the 1930s was developed. In recent years, two thermal baths were opened. An already existing since 1984 at a natural hot water spring bath between Gárdony Agárd and has been extended and modernized in 2007. In Velencei end of November 2008 a completely new bathroom was built with attached hotel directly on the southeastern shore. There are two islands that were piled up in the 1960s when dredging. Even then, the shoreline of the beach resorts was concreted spacious.
Attractions
- In the north of the lake, the village Pákozd is one of the most important Bronze Age settlements of Hungary.
- A museum is located near the obelisk on a hill on the north shore.
- The house of the poet Mihály Vörösmarty Press is located at the Bence - mountain on the north shore, his memorial museum is in Kápolnásnyék.
- The birthplace and present museum of the writer Géza Gárdonyi is in Agárd. The author of the novel Star of Eger, from the most Hungarian children know the Turkish period, was born as Ziegler, therefore Hungary was German.