2018 week 14: Mud flats of Lake Gruyere

The Lake of Gruyere, a manmade reservoir in the canton of Fribourg, is drained every spring to accommodate rising water levels from the melting snow as the temperature rises. This photo I took on Saturday shows the lake bed as it is currently. I'm guessing this is mud that is deposited as sediment by the water washing down the mountains.

This year the snowpack is thicker than usual, and there are concerns about flooding.

Rossens Dam
Year: 1947
Type: Arch

Height: 83 m
Reservoir
Length: 13.5 km
Watershed: 954 km2
Volume: 220 mil. m3

Links:
For some excellent drone shots, search for the following terms: greyerzersee flauraud

57. Fork in the river

Walking on a few more meters towards the Brugg side in yesterday's photo you would see this fork of the Aare.

56. The Aare and Brugg seen from the pedestrian bridge

Oof, look at all that grey.

There's a lovely prestressed concrete tension-band bridge over the Aare at Brugg for pedestrian traffic and I took this photo while I was crossing over it. The bridge seen here is the Casinobrücke.

The bridge I was on is the Aaresteg Mülimatt and I will have to go photograph it another day. More info about that one:
Porta AG (Surveyers)

37. The Aare, the Holcim conveyor, and some power masts

Another view of the Aare from the PSI bridge. The thing spanning the river up ahead is the rock conveyor that belongs to Holcim, the cement plant.

36. The Aare (from the PSI bridge)

A view from December 2013.

Reflections

Sorry about the absence -- I've been away from Switzerland and have had some connection problems. Here is another photo from the area in Baden I've been showing for the past few days.

Rocks, the other view

Same area as in yesterday's photo. As you can see, there's a dam which is used for electricity production. Recently some fish were introduced to the area hence the poster,

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Rocks in the river

Near Baden...

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A dry September

We had very little rain in September and the stream that flows through our backyard is currently dry.

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Evening sun on the Aare

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Where the Rhone begins

The Rhone river doesn't make it to my part of Switzerland, but it rises here, near where the Aare begins and it would be remiss of me not to mention it. More about it at this Wikipedia page: Rhone.

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Rail bridge over the Reuss

Not much of the river Reuss is visible from the look-out point on Bruggerberg. This railway bridge is one of the few areas that are.

Impressive HD footage from around the world, shot from helicopters:
Home - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

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The old and the new

I've always found this red building charming. Perhaps one of my local readers will tell us more about it. Behind it, a new apartment building.

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The old Gipsmühle building in Lauffohr

The Aare is the longest river that exists entirely within Switzerland. It is 288 km (183 miles) long and has a water volume rate of 590 m³/s (source: Wikipedia).

Today a closer view of the building I pointed out yesterday. It used to be a gypsum mill but is now an apartment building. The architects offices can be seen more easily in this photo. The long building in the middle is currently being renovated. Parts of the scaffolding and bare bricks are visible.

Other views of the mill have appeared on this blog:
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20090214 The mill and the bridge

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Where the Limmat meets the Aare

I think I've got this right. The Reuss has already joined the Aare about a kilometer upstream. In the background are Turgi and Untersiggenthal. In the foreground the area of Lauffohr. If you're a regular reader, you might find the largish white building on the river bank on the left side of the photo familiar. It's an old mill (gypsum mill - Gipsmühle) converted to housing units, with the barely visible lower building as offices for Architheke, the architectural firm that planned the renovation.

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Sandbank in the Aare at Lauffohr

Further along the hiking trail on Bruggerberg is a wonderful viewing point for the Wasserschloss which is where three important rivers (the Aare, the Reuss and the Limmat) come together. Here a sandbank in the Aare in the region of Lauffohr is visible.

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Boating on the Aare

We were at the Schifflände establishment in Stilli to quench our thirst when this noisy object came by.

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Print

A photo I took a month ago at the "beach" in Brugg.

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Grossmünster at dusk

The distinctive twin towers of the Grossmünster church. The core of the building was built between 1100 and 1220. Wiki entry here about the role it played in the history of the Protestant Reformation.

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Ladenlücke

In roughly the same spot as yesterday's photo, but panning over to the south a little bit. There's the river Limmat with the Zürichsee - lake Zürich - beyond.

If my information is correct, Ladenlücke is an outlet for things made by people in social welfare programs. The objects are made out of used materials. Bags made from car tires, vases made out of soda bottles, things like that.

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