Turracher See

The Turrachersee or Turrachsee is a mountain on the Turracherhöhe on the border between Carinthia and Styria.

Description

The lake is 19.4 ha in size and 33 feet deep at its deepest point in the southeast corner, the average depth is 13.6 meters. Due to its location in 1,763 meters above sea level ( sea surface ), it is an average of six months a year with a one meter thick layer of ice. In summer, it reached a maximum temperature of 18 ° C. When bathing it is therefore hardly used; Exception is a 10 × 25 meter area on the south bank, which is distinguished from a hotel with a 3.5 -meter-high side walls from the lake and within which the water is brought to 28-30 ° C by a heat pump.

The Turrachersee is powered by a leading- on the west bank of creek and marsh meadows. The outflow (75 l / s ) is supplied as Front Seebach in the north, which joins with the coming of Turracher Schwarzsee Rear Seebach for Turrach, which flows northward through the valley Turracher and finally flows into Predlitz in the Mur.

As the lake was heavily affected by the surrounding tourist operations, the Turrachersee was the first Carinthian lake, where a drainage system was installed. In the lake six species of fish, including lake trout and lake trout.

The Carinthian part is now part of the Biosphere Reserve Salzburger Lungau and Carinthian Nock Mountains.

Turracher Schwarzsee

In 300 meters east of the lake is Turracher - also on the border - 1,840 meters above sea level in the 2.6 ha large and four meters deep Turracher Schwarzsee. It owes its name to its Schwarzsee due to the bog soil and anthracite deposits appear dark surface. Surrounded by larger moorland lake flows - partially underground - in the rear Seebach to the north. As a relic of the Voreiszeit growing on its banks the rare dwarf birch (Betula nana ).

To the lakes a conservation area was established ( Law Gazette No. 77/1970, LSG.025 ) with 57.1 ha, so that these lakes become natural and without onerous bank building. It is adjacent to the Biosphere Reserve.

Turracher Grünsee

A little further away is south of Turracher Grünsee, with 1.48 ha in 1765 m above sea level, the smallest of the three lakes on the Turracherhöhe, which is but at least up to 12 meters deep. The green color comes from the genus Chara Chara on the lake bottom. The slopes around the lake are occupied by larch and stone pine, the Green Lake is considered the most scenic of the three lakes. It drains the only one of them to the south, its water flows over the wooden Bach and the Bach bar in the upper Gurk.

Around the lake is also a conservation area ( Gazette No. 78/1970, LSG.024 ) with 68.5 ha It is located in the Biosphere Reserve.