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Lake Lake · The Black Forest · 922 m

Schluchsee

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    Schluchsee
    Photo: By Werner Schreiber (given to Flominator personally) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASchluchsee_bei_Aha_02.jpg
Der ursprünglich natürliche Gletschersee wird seit knapp 80 Jahren zum größten See im Schwarzwald gestaut. Durch seine Lage auf 930 m über NN ist das Wasser des Schluchsees auch im Sommer recht frisch.

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47.821454, 8.139153
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47°49'17.2"N 8°08'20.9"E
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32T 435563 5296814
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