Little sheltered pools along the bank of the river Aare in Brugg. Around the area seen in this post from almost a year ago (20080326 Aare Yikes, the photo looks terrible!) . Click on the aare label below to see other posts about the river (not a proper listing of all content as I probably forgot to label some of the posts along the way).
20090202
It takes about 20 minutes to walk to Stilli. The land drops down close to the Aare river (beyond the trees on the left). There are three rivers in this area and I'll talk about them later sometime. I don't think this pond is there year round, we've just had a lot of rain lately.
Update:
I've been learning German since moving to CH and I really must practice. This blog offers a good opportunity to do that. Starting today I'm going to try to write a German version after the English one. To those of you who know Deutsch: please feel free to correct me. I mean it.
Man braucht 20 Minuten um Stilli zu Fuss zu erreichen. Stilli liegt direkt an der Aare (die Aare ist ein Fluss und ist hinter dem Bäumen links). Es gibt drei Flüsse in der Umgebung, ich werde irgendwann später mal mehr darüber erzahlen. Ich glaube, dass dieser Teich nicht permanent sondern nur wegen des Regens da ist. In letzter Zeit haben wir viel Regen gehabt.
20070106
The PSI straddles the Aare and this is the view looking to the south from the bridge. The river originates in the Aare glacier in the Bernese alps and it runs 291 km (180 miles) before joining the Rhine in Koblenz, making it the longest river that lies entirely inside Switzerland. Some trivia: the Romans called it Obringa.
In the distance on the right, there's a glimpse of Stilli. The thing spanning the river is a conveyor system that transports rocks from a local quarry to a cement plant on the other side.
20070127 modified
Working our way downstream along the Aare from Brugg we arrive in Lauffohr (Vogelsang on the other side). By this time, the river Reuss has already merged with the Aare. There's a crossing over the river here and it has been recently replaced with a new bridge. What you see in this photograph is an natural habitat area for amphibians formed from a diverted section of the river, next to the floodplain area (Auengebiet) of Lauffohr.
This link should take you to the Google map of the area. The image is old and doesn't show the bridge area as it is now.
20090203
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.
20090614
It is strange to me that I took this photo within a few minutes of that of the daffodils I posted yesterday. Overhead, the sky was a brilliant blue while a mist clung to the rivers. We've seen this area before, in the Lauffohr post. This is the view from a little higher up. The Reuss comes down about center-right and joins the Aare, which flows in from the right (not visible here). If you floated down the Aare from here, you'd pass Stilli and then Villigen.
Es scheint mir seltsam, dass dieses Foto nur ein paar Minuten nach dem Narzissenfoto von gestern gemacht wurde. Oben war es ganz klar, der Talboden war vom Nebel verhüllt. Wir waren früher hier in Lauffohr, aber das war am Aareufer. Die Reuss ist in der Mitte-rechts und fliesst hier mit der Aare (von rechts, auf dem Bild nicht sichtbar) zussammen.
20070311
There are lots of birdhouses on trees in the vicinity of the Aare in Brugg. I stumbled upon a cluster of them near the old town today. Here's number 84.
I've recently started to read a book called Das Wasserschloss, about this general area where the three rivers, the Aare, the Reuss and the Limmat come together. Brugg is the entry point of the Aare to the confluence, while Villigen/Stilli is roughly the exit point. I'll try to do some posts based on what I read.
20080114
We went for a walk yesterday, with the intention of going to Baden from Villigen. A good part of the path goes through woods next to the rivers Aare and Limmat. The segment shown here is next to the Aare, beyond Stilli and close to Lauffohr. After two hours (including at least 20 minutes of stopping to take photos) we were still an hour away from Baden. Consistent with the stated time on this Wegweiser I posted about in February. We decided to turn back and try it another day.
20070409
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.
20090614
I've written often about the Aare as it flows near Villigen, on its way out of Switzerland. But this is the region where it begins, near the Grimsel Pass at the border of cantons Valais/Wallis and Bern. Over the next few days, I'll show some photos I took in that area.
20090816
The Limmat is in the background and the Aare at the front. There's a weir near the far bank if you look closely. There are many small power generating stations all along these rivers and this is one of them.
I made a movie of this area to try to convey how the currents flow as the rivers merge. About 52 seconds long.
This photo is from last month, though we have had spells of similar weather conditions recently. Yesterday, I talked about ABB, and today I'll mention Holcim, a leading supplier of cement and aggregates in the world. It was established in 1912 in a village near us called Holderbank. We have a plant on the other side of the Aare and the quarry for the rocks it uses is in Villigen's backyard, so to speak. There's a long conveyor system across Villigen and the Aare, a small part of which is visible in this earlier post.
20070121
A view through the railing of the old bridge over the river Aare in Brugg. For a better look at the scene in the background, go back earlier this year to the following post:
20080105 The Aare in Brugg
20081129 Nikon Coolpix 950
A view from the top of the hill in yesterday's photo. I've mentioned the Paul Scherrer Institut, a national research facility, a few times already (click on the psi label to see those old posts). Also visible in the photo is the Aare, wending its way through the land. A bit unfortunate about the branches in the center of the photo; they were out of reach and I couldn't do anything about them.
20070914
The west campus of the Paul Scherrer Institut, the national research facility that calls Villigen home, as seen from the bridge over the Aare. We've had a lot of rain recently and the river is high and muddy as a result. Click on the PSI label below to read previous posts that mention it. The Aare from the PSI bridge as seen in January.
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