Titisee

Known health resort

Lake Titisee is a lake in the southern Black Forest in Baden- Württemberg. It covers an area of ​​1.3 km ² and is on average 20 meters deep. Its formation he owes the Feldberg glacier, today limit moraines formed in the Pleistocene its banks. The outflow of the lake at 840 m above sea level. NHN is the Gutach. On the north side is the same spa, which is part of the town of Titisee -Neustadt.

History

First documented records from the year 1050 can be found in the monastery of All Saints in Schaffhausen, where the name is mentioned Titinsee. Even the name Dettesee is mentioned in a document from the parish Saig, which dates from the year 1111. Around since 1750, the name is used in its present form.

About the origin of the name, there are several theories: After the Roman general Titus is said to have stored around the Titisee. Here, the lake it seems to have so much that he gave him his name. This is also the reason why today the rough replica of a Roman galley on the Titisee wrong. According to another theory, a Mr. Titini to have hunted in the 12th century in the area around the lake. Also, the arum, formerly known in the region as Tittele, comes as a name in question, even if it does not happen again at Titisee today.

After taking a hill at the outflow of Gutach from the Titisee two sarcophagi were found from worked tuff in 1840, assumed the archaeologist Andreas Haasis -Berner in an essay published in 2011, that they must come from the period between 700 and 900. Previously it had been thought the Black Forest for the first millennium as uninhabited.

Icing

The Titisee takes a long time until it freezes in winter. This is due to the winds, which almost always keep the water surface in motion. Thus, the ice is released to enter the thickness of the ice core must be at least 16 cm ( Kerneis, also called Kompakteis, is stable and contains almost no air bubbles).

Is there prospect of release, measurements are carried out through the yard of the town of Titisee -Neustadt to three to four measuring points daily. If a release is possible and responsible have been approved, certain defined areas of the lake are released, but never the whole lake.

This scheme was introduced after a previous accident had happened: At that time, the lake was used as an airstrip for flight days. To overcome these, a tractor was used to plow snow. The tractor broke out on January 14, 1966 through the ice and sank along with the Bühlhofbauer Walter Wild (29 ) in the lake. The body was found two weeks later.

Say

• Lake Titisee is true according to the legend as waters of immeasurable depth and insensible. When trying for the measuring of sounds from the deep ( depending on the source ), one vote " you fathom me, I drown you. ", " Do you want to measure myself, so I will eat you. " Or " Missest you love me, so I verschling you " the same story goes also from Feldsee. With the Ursee to persist a saga an " underground " context. Similar legends are also available from Mummelsee.
• According to an ancient tradition, the Titisee is on the location of a lost city in the floods, which was closed for punishment for its inhabitants bread sacrilege committed. They hollowed out bread loaves in order to abuse them as shoes.
• The lake is prevented only by the white hood of an old woman from leaking. Each year a rotten thread the hood, so that eventually the entire Dreisamtal is flooded by the lake. (In fact, the Titisee drained northeast across the Gutach in the Wutach and not to the northwest in the Dreisamtal. )

Fauna and Flora

In nutrient-poor Titisee to large predatory fish ( pike, lake trout and a large stock of pike ), schooling fish ( whitefish, roach and perch ) and carp, chub and tench found in shallow areas. This biodiversity is complemented by brown trout, brook trout and rainbow trout in the estuary areas of streams and by eel and burbot ( burbot ) in the share. Additional small fish species are moderlieschen, minnows and brook lamprey. Around the lake herons are also observed.

On the banks of Lake Titisee, among others, the rare Brachsenkräuter Stachelsporiges quillwort grow ( Isoetes echinospora ) and Lake quillwort ( Isoetes lacustris ).

Diving

Lake Titisee is home port for the Rescue Diver Penguin Group, a division of rescue divers Freiburg.