64. Huzenbacher See

During the last Ice age, the northern Black Forest was covered only by local glaciers, which resulted in many cirques, the deepest still containing lakes (Lang 2005). One of them, Huzenbacher See (8° 20′ 58′′ E, 48° 34′ 33′′ N, 747 m above sea level [a.s.l.]), is surrounded by ridges with elevations up to 940 m a.s.l. The lake covers an area of 2.5 ha, has a maximum depth of 7.5 m and is surrounded by a fringe of oligotrophic mires and by coniferous forest dominated by spruce. The closest larger areas with open vegetation are the Murg valley, about 4 km to the east, and the Acher valley more than 10 km to the west, where the Black Forest becomes lower and eventually bounds the Upper Rhine Rift. In modern times, as most lakes of the Black Forest, Huzenbacher See was dammed to rise the water table and to have water for flushing timber down to the Murg valley. With the rising water table parts of the surrounding peat were elevated and floated, resulting in a concentric ring of quaking bog surrounding the lake’s centre and separating it from the littoral water.