Wiesensee () is a small lake in the northwest corner of the Hochfilzen municipality of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

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Location

It lies between

Pillersee Pillersee is a lake in the Northern Limestone Alps in Tyrol, Austria. The Pillersee is in the Pillerseevalley near the village of Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee at 835 m above sea level. It occupies an area of . Inflows are several streams that origin ...

and

Hochfilzen Hochfilzen is a town and municipality in the Kitzbühel district of the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located in the Pillersee valley 5 km east of Fieberbrunn. Population was 1,147 in 2016. It is a popular winter sports resort, especially f ...

in Austria, near the village of . It gives its name to the ''Wiesenseetal'' (Wiesensee Valley).

Hydrology

Wiesensee is fed from the south and drained to the north by the Katzelbach stream. It is close to the source of the Katzelbach and from the valley watershed separating that stream from the Dunkelbach river, however both ultimately progress to the

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and then to the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

. The lake is gradually silting up and the southern end has become a

reed bed A reedbed or reed bed is a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and estuaries. Reedbeds are part of a succession from young reeds colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground. As ...

Amenities

Alongside Wiesensee are the ''Klettergarten Wiesensee'' (Rock Climbing Area), with 25 climbing routes, and the Kneipp water therapy trail.

References

{{Reflist Lakes of Tyrol (state) Kitzbühel District