Mummelsee

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Mummelsee
Location Black Forest
Coordinates 48°35′53″N8°12′3″E / 48.59806°N 8.20083°E / 48.59806; 8.20083 Coordinates: 48°35′53″N8°12′3″E / 48.59806°N 8.20083°E / 48.59806; 8.20083
Basin  countriesGermany
Max. depth17 metres (56 ft)
Surface elevation1,036 metres (3,399 ft)

The Mummelsee is a 17-metre-deep lake at the western mountainside of the Hornisgrinde in the Northern Black Forest of Germany. It is very popular with tourists travelling along the Black Forest High Road. According to legends, the lake is inhabited by a Nix and the King of the Mummelsee. [1]

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With a circumference of 800 meters, the Mummelsee is the largest of the seven cirque lakes in the Black Forest, the deepest at 17 m deep and the highest at 1036 m. [2]

Geography

The Mummelsee has a circumference of approximately 800 m (2,625 ft) and is surrounded by steep and forested mountain slopes on its northern, western and eastern sides. The western lakeside rises towards the mountain "Katzenkopf" (1,123 m (3,684 ft) above sea level), and the northern lakeshore rises towards Hornisgrinde. With 1,163 m (3,816 ft) above sea level, Hornisgrinde is the highest mountain in the Northern Black Forest. Solely the southern lake banks are (nearly) flat. This also being the place where the alpine hotel "Mummelsee" and the close-by St. Michaels chapel are located.

Etymology

According to statements made by the town Seebach, the name of the Mummelsee derives from the (German) vernacular term "Mummeln" used for white waterlilies (Nymphaea alba). [3] In the past, this species of plant could be found in large numbers in that area. The yellow pond lily, Nuphar lutea, is also called "Mummel." The myth of the nix, which were called "Mümmlein" (diminutive form of "Mummel"), possibly could have been the namesake of the lake as well. [4] [5]

Connected to this context, the white waterlily is also referred to as "Nixblume" meaning "nix flower". [6]

Tourism

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The Chapel of St Michael at the Mummelsee

Favoured by the route of the Schwarzwaldhochstraße, the lake became a tourist destination. A bigger building that includes the hotel, two restaurants, one grocery and souvenir store, as well as a paddleboat rental is located directly near the visitors' car park. [7] [8]

A great part of the hotel building burnt down on 5 May 2008. [9] The fire was presumably a case of arson. [10] After the incident, the hotel was rebuilt in the "Schwarzwaldstil" with an increase of usable floor space from 2,385 m2 (25,672 ft2) to 3,690 m2 (39,719 ft2) and reopened on 26 March 2010.

The Chapel of St Michael was inaugurated in 1937. It was dedicated to the Archangel Michael, an impressive reminder at a time when the National Socialists were gaining more power. From the outside, the low roof of the chapel is striking. It is modeled on a Black Forest house. The slim tower stylises a Black Forest fir. [11]

Trails

Formerly, the naturally existing trail around the lake was kept in its original state with several tight passages and obstructive tree roots.

In 1999, the Kunstpfad am Mummelsee , a sculpture path by international artists was installed along the circular trail. It presents 18 installations of artists visualising the connection of nature, landscape and art. [12] [13]

In 2014, the path was reconstructed barrier-free. [14]

The long-distance hiking trail with the red diamond (Westweg from Pforzheim to Basel) passes here as well as the other regional routes (blue and yellow diamond) and circular hiking trails. It is only a short trip up to the Hornisgrinde (1.5 km and 120 meters in altitude). [15]

Other trails are:

Transportation

Visitors' parking spaces are located at the southern lake shore. Busses for hiking tourists drive to Baden-Baden, Achern and Freudenstadt on a daily basis. On weekends, there are direct bus connections available to Oppenau and once on Saturday and Sunday each to Offenburg. The "Baden-Württemberg-Ticket", "Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket" and the "Konus-Ticket" (sold by the Deutsche Bahn and local bus companies) are valid to use on all these routes.

The Mummelsee in literature

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References

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