Wörthsee

The Worthsee, formerly Ausee, located in the northern district of Starnberg in Bavaria, about 25 km south-west of Munich, and is framed inning in the north of the four districts of the municipality Worthsee and west by two places in the community. He is one of the lakes in the Five Lakes region ( Ammersee, Worthsee, Wessling Lake, Pilsensee, Starnberger See ) in Upper Bavaria. The mean water level of the lake lying in a separate basin is about 27 m higher than that of the adjacent to the west Ammersee. Its catchment area is small, according to sources, it is indicated with an area of ​​17, or 26.35 km ². The lake is divided between the municipalities Worthsee (northeast) and innings (southwest); a small part in the southeast part of the municipality Seefeld am Pilsensee. Most of the shore is privately owned and is not accessible. There are five major swimming spots on the lake. The lake is owned by the Counts of Toerring - Jettenbach.

History

Takes its name from the 12 acre lake Wörth island, which is located in it. The Middle High German Werth means island or shore location. In the vernacular, the island is only called mouse island.

Like the other lakes in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps was the Worthsee by the Exaration a foreland glacier. It forms a branch basin of the Isar- Loisach glacier. In the melting of the ice-age glacier the Wörth basin initially formed part of a peripheral drainage, Coming through the Inninger Bach tends towards the Ampermoos from Pilsensee and leaves the tongue basin in Grafrath.

Hydrology

The Worthsee considered one of the cleanest and most beautiful Bavarian lakes, even though he has only a slow water exchange. It takes about eight years to develop has renewed its water. He runs off just 0.3 cubic meters of water per second, which can still be compensated only to a small extent by its inlets. Mostly groundwater flows to him, which explains its low water level fluctuations.