Spechtensee

The Spechtensee is a lake on the southern edge of the Dead Mountains in Wörschachwald in the municipality of Pürgg - Traut rock.

Location

The lake is located about 3 kilometers north of Stainach, 4 north-east of Pürgg, 12 kilometers east of Bad Mitterndorf, in the first Quervortal the Dead mountain to the Enns Valley.

The lake is drained by the Wörschachbach flowing through the Wörschachklamm the Enns valley. The length of the lake is about 250 meters and its maximum width is about 150 meters, the area of ​​about 3 hectares. It has a maximum depth of eight meters, according to other sources he is eleven meters deep.

History and use

Is named the lake after the formerly resident in Stainach Specht family, the (now Castle Sonnhof ) lived until the end of the 19th century on the Spechtengut at Stainach. To possession of such property included the SSCD. Even in 1843, the Lake George in Goeth's topography of the Duchy of Styria, Volume 3, referred to as " " fishing lake " in the community zlem. When finally prevailed, the term" Spechtensee " can not be answered accurately.

The lake, which can be up to 23 degrees Celsius in the summer, is also used for bathing. On the north side there is a beach, and in the middle of the lake a small resort island is anchored. Near the lake there is the Spechtenseehütte the Austrian Alpine Club.

Although Pürgg - Trautenfels no longer the Styrian Salzkammergut (Region Salzkammergut region ) is one, but the Enns Valley, the lake in the Salzkammergut lakes nowadays mitgenannt.

Bathe

Geology

The lake is located in würmzeitlichen moraines, which seal the lake towards the bottom and created by its ramparts, the trough for the lake. In addition, are located around the lake conglomerates mainly Cretaceous Gosau Group.

Plants and wildlife, conservation

There is a fen, which merges with quaking in the open sea area on the east side of the lake. A significant quaking stock is also on the western side of the lake. In the southern lake area grows the white water lily. In the lake crayfish are bred. Of fish are in the lake trout and rainbow trout, further tench, rudd, roach, chub and pike before.

The lake is situated in the conservation area Warscheneck group ( LS15 ).