Rachelsee

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The Rachelsee is one of three cirque lakes of the Bavarian Forest. It is located in the far north of the municipality of Sankt Oswald- Riedlhutte. On the Czech side of this large forest, located in the Bohemian Forest another five cirque lakes. The lakes and the surrounding area have been declared a nature reserve in 1918.

Description

The Rachelsee at the base and about 800 meters southeast of the Great Rachel is the quietest Bayer forest lake and accessible only by footpaths. He is just like the Great Arber surmounted by a steep sea wall. Under the dark brown colored water surface lies a depth of 13.5 m. The 5.7 acre lake is low in aquatic animals for his lack of lime salts and soil acidification. Around the lake, a forest has since since the establishment of the nature reserve are no longer a tree was cut, formed, which may be traversed only on a jungle trail.

The lake was formed in the Ice Age, as glacial cirque lake after the meltwater of the glacier melted Rachel were dammed by a wall of moraines. The geological substrate consists mainly of gneiss. In the North the sea wall, also on the northern edge is about a ten -meter-wide aggradation zone. The northern basin reaches a depth of up to three meters, separate from a position below the water level Felsbarrierre southern up to 13 meters. The entire bottom is lined with up to 6.5 meters mighty, clayey- silty unconsolidated sediment that is rich in pieces of wood in its upper layers.

The front pool is dammed by a steep terminal moraine. Inflow and outflow is the Seebach, which rises approximately 1300 meters on the sea wall and forms the headwaters of the Great Ohe. Due to its sheltered location of the lake, the wind has little access, so that hardly any mixing of the upper layers takes place.

The Rachelsee is because of its catchment area in the mountain spruce forest due to be flooded by natural humic acid from an acidic waters. The normally located at 5 pH decreased to 1987 to an average of 3.8, but then increased again at 5 in the lake, among other larvae of caddis flies, mud flies and dragonflies, and various algae and micro-organisms were found. The sparse aquatic plants accumulate mainly in the silt zone of the North Bay. Problems have been identified Schnabelsegge, Lawn Rush and several species of moss.

On the south shore is the Rachelsee - shelter. To the north stands on a rocky outcrop about 140 meters above the lake, the Rachel Rachel chapel, which is accessible through the chapel gate.

Development

The lake is already included in the map of the Philipp Apian in 1568. In 1835 he was filled to about one meter in order to use it as a drift cell. At that time, a drift channel between the Rachelsee and the mire Old Lake was built.

The oldest drawing comes from Bernard Grueber in the seminal book The Bavarian Forest ( Šumava ) by Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller from 1846, where the Rachelsee is described. :

Reason for the quantities of dead trees was the damming of the lake. Thus, the trees stood on the eastern shore in the flood area. After they were dead, they fell into the lake. At the bottom of the lake are many trees today.

Gümbel 1868 and Thiem 1905 also mentioned the lack of fish. However Gümbel pointed to the presence of numerous small organisms in the lake, which was later repeatedly confirmed.

The 106 5 hectare nature reserve with Rachel Rachelsee was notice of the State Ministry of the Interior on 20 June 1950 punch. Created No. 25. It included Rachelsee, sea wall and top of Rachel. 1970, it was in the national park Bavarian Forest on. This built on the lake a glacial trail.

A considerable number of myths revolves around the lake, Reinhard Haller in 1983 written in his book Nature and landscape, legends from the Bavarian Forest. All of these stories make the lake is as enchanted abode of souls that reappear when they are disturbed in their rest.

1989 took Cletus Weilner with his crew of six diving descents into the lake, another followed in 1995.

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