Egelsee (Bubikon)

For other uses, see Egelsee (disambiguation).

Egelsee
Egelsee (March 2010)
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Location	Bubikon, Canton of Zurich
Coordinates	47°15′28″N 8°49′00″E
Primary outflows	Rüegghuserbach
Catchment area	1.305 km2 (0.504 sq mi)
Basin countries	Switzerland
Surface area	4.3 ha (11 acres)
Average depth	3.6 m (12 ft)
Max. depth	6 m (20 ft)
Residence time	180 days
Surface elevation	494 m (1,621 ft)

Egelsee is a lake in the municipality of Bubikon in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Its surface area is 4.3 ha (11 acres).

Geography

During the Würm glaciation around 12,000 years ago, the Rhine/Linth Glacier shaped the landscape in the Zurich Oberland. A tributary crept up from Lake Zurich into the upper Glatt valley. When it melted back, it left behind many troughs with numerous small lakes, so-called dead lakes. Many of these lakes silted up, only a few remained, one of which is the Egelsee. Its surface originally measured 650,000 m² and today its size has shrunk to just 35,000 m².

In 1991, the lake and the surrounding bog were included in the list of raised and transitional bogs of national importance and in 1994 it was included in the list of fens of national importance.

External links

• "Infrared map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2007-10-14. (370 KiB)
• Nature path around the lake (in German)