Seehamer See

Pumped storage power plant

The Seehamer lake is located about 40 kilometers south-east of Munich. He belongs to the municipality Weyarn ( district Holzolling ), but still borders with its southern shore and to the community deer mountain ( district Reichersdorf ). He is above the Leitzachtals between the two Hauptendmoränenwällen of Inngletschers. In early history the several small lakes that lay at this site were specified or Osterseen (after the fertility goddess Ostara ). The small lakes is presented so -called dead-ice depressions and were of 1631 until the secularization in 1803 the property of the monastery Weyarn. In the Staufer period was the largest of the five islands in the lake, the castle stable island, a castle of the Counts of Falkenstein ( Großseeham -Falkenstein ), whose foundations were visible until the construction of Leitzachwerke.

Data

The Seehamer lake is on average 3.8 meters and maximum 12 meters deep. With an area of 1.47 km ², this results in a volume of 5.586 million m³.

Islands

In the lake there are five small islands with sizes between 300 and 1600 square feet ( 4,400 m²). The largest is the Postal island with approximately 1600 square meters. The islands were all represented as bog and wetland areas in the land use plan of the municipality Weyarn.

The two largest islands make up the parcels 890 and 891 of the district Holzolling. The remaining islands are for the lake (including undeveloped riparian areas ) subsumed under the plot number 899 and not surveying technically measured separately.

Leitzachwerke

For the operation of Leitzachwerke, a pumped storage power station, the lake was dammed in 1911 to 1913 and has since formed a single lake. He is now fed by the feed lines Leitzach, the Mangfall and Schlierach than headwater basins of the power plant of energy. He has by damming an average water volume of 6,000,000 cubic meters, of which approximately 2,000,000 m³ can be taken for energy.

Location

The lake is situated directly on the main highway between 8 Weyarn and Deer Mountain and tourism is highly developed. You can walk right through the two motorway parking " Seehamer See East" and lowering " Seehamer Lake West". There are two campgrounds right on the lake, the lake can be completely hike around on a well-developed trail. The south bank of the lake is heavily wooded. In a wooded area along the south shore there is a spring called " Deife ria di " ( High German " devil stir up "), which carried with the water and fine sand to the surface.