Blindenseemoor - Schönwald i. Schwarzwald, BW, Germany
N 48° 07.456 E 008° 10.434
32U E 438525 N 5330442
Glacial builded raised bog lake in the middle of the Black Forest.
Waymark Code: WMWMGD
Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date Posted: 09/18/2017
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The Blindensee is a raised bog lake on the territory of Schönwald im Schwarzwald in the Black Forest in Germany. It lies within the county of Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is only accessible on a board walk and lies with raised bog area that has been designated as a nature reserved near the watershed between the rivers Gutach and Elz.
As is typical of raised bog lakes, it has neither a headstream nor a tailstream.
The Blindensee Nature Reserve (Naturschutzgebiet Blindensee) was established as a Naturschutzgebiet by an act of the Freiburg regional government dated 2 March 1960 (NSG Number 3.056). The reserve has an area of 28.5 hectares. It is part of the 1,722-hectare Special Area of Conservation 7915-341 Schönwald Plateaux.
In the nutrient-poor raised bog around the lake there are plant species like the hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), the cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris) and the round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). In the nutrient-rich perimeter zones grow bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), summer pheasant's-eye (Comarum palustre) and Irish marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis). Among the botanical rarities of the reserve is the extremely rare erst Rannoch-rush (Scheuchzeria plaustris).
A legend, according to which a cow drowned in the Blindensee and resurfaced after several weeks in the Danube, is supposed to have led to an (inevitably fruitless) attempt to identify a link with the Danube, by dying the lake water. According to another tale, a drover is supposed to have drowned in the Blindensee with his entire span of horses, never to be seen again.
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