!!!Achensee

Achensee, Lake, Tyrol, alt. 929 m, area 
6.8 km%%sup 2/%%%sup ,/% 9 km long, 1 km wide, up to 
133 m deep. Tyrol's largest lake, formed by moraines of the Inn 
Glacier; north of Jenbach, between the Karwendel mountains to the 
south and west and the Rofan Mountains to the east. Lake Achensee 
originally fed the stream to the River Isar. Since 1927 Lake Achensee 
has been a reservoir for the Achensee-Wasserkraftwerk (Hydroelectric 
Power Plant) in Jenbach; which is powered by the 380 m drop from 
Achensee to the Inn Valley. Archduke  Ferdinand II (1529-95) had 
Venetian ships brought to Lake Achensee for the court. Once tourism 
had begun to develop, the first steamship was launched on the Lake in 
1887; in 1889 the first steam-powered cog railway in Europe was built 
between Jenbach and Seespitz (7 km). Shipping service. Lakeside 
towns include Seespitz, Pertisau, Scholastika, Seehof, and Buchau.

!Further reading
F. Wachter, Der Achensee, 1933; Kraftwerk Achensee, 
1956.


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