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The Mathisleweiher is a large
bog lake, under 2 hectares in area, in the
Black Forest
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in southern
Germany
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. It lies in the
High Black Forest between
Feldberg in the west and the
Titisee
The Titisee is a lake in the southern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg. It covers an area of and is an average of deep. It owes its formation to the Feldberg glacier, the moraines of which were formed in the Pleistocene epoch and nowadays f ...
in the east on the territory of
Hinterzarten at about southwest of the village in the Eschengrundmoos Nature Reserve.
The pond impounds the
Zartenbach which flows through it from west-southwest to east-northeast. The stream rises on the eastern slopes of the Ramselehöhe (
) at about ,
picks up the Eschengrundmoosbach from the right from the protected bog and runs for less than a kilometre before entering the lake. A shorter stream runs from the north from the woods of the Stuckwald. It has a
catchment
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of 1.0 km
2
The lake is accessible from Hinterzarten but only on foot. A path runs from the village passing close to the lake and a spur branches off to the east shore.
Together with the Mathislehof, Mathislemühle and Mathislewald the pond belongs to the Müller-Fahnenberg Foundation of the
University of Freiburg
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.
Origin of the name
The Mathisleweiher s named after the nearby farm of Mathislehof, which in turn is named after the farmer, Mathias Rombach, who inherited the farm in 1736 by marrying the widow.
References
LUBW
: Official online waterbody map with extract and layers used here
Karte von Mathisleweiher und Umgebung: General access without presets and layers:
Seefläche:
[Lake area from the layer: ''Stehende Gewässer''.]
Dimensionen:
[Length and width measured on the background layer ''Topographische Karte''.]
Höhe:
[Height based on black writing on the background layer ''Topographische Karte''.]
[Height based on the contour image on the background layer ''Topographische Karte''.]
EZG:
[Catchment measured from the background layer ''Topographische Karte''.]
Special references
[Verordnung des Regierungspräsidiums Freiburg als höhere Naturschutzbehörde über das Naturschutzgebiet »Eschengrundmoos« dated 4 December 1984 (GBl. dated 28 December 1984, p. 705). Online: http://www2.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/public/abt2/dokablage/oac_12/vo/3/3140.htm ][Digital topographic map 1:10,000 series (DTK 10), Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landentwicklung Baden-Württemberg. URL: http://www.geoportal-bw.de/geoportal/opencms/de/geoviewer.html ]
[Klaus Weber: Chronik der Eschbacher Höfe. In: Breisgauer Nachrichten vom 29. Juli 1954. Abschrift unter http://www.stegen-dreisamtal.de/chronesch.htm]
[Günther Reichelt: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural regional units on Sheet 185 Freiburg i. Br.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg, 1964. →&nbs]
Online-Karte
(pdf; 3.7 MB)
External links
Map of the Mathisleweiher and surrounding areaat:
at: {{GeoQuelle, DE-BW, GeoView, ref=nein
Lakes of Baden-Württemberg
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
LMathisleweiher