Sihlsee
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Location	Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
Coordinates	47°07′N 8°47′ECoordinates: 47°07′N 8°47′E
Lake type	reservoir
Primary sources	Sihl, Minster
Primary outflows	Sihl
Basin countries	Switzerland
Max length	8.5 km
Max width	2.5 km
Surface area	11.3 km²
Max depth	17 m
Water volume	96 mio m³
Surface elevation	889 m
Settlements	Gross, Willerzell, Birchli, Euthal

The Sihlsee (in English sometimes called Lake Sihl) is an artificial lake near Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Its concrete dam is 33 m high and 124 m long. The lake is the largest artificial lake of Switzerland in terms of surface with a maximum length of 8.5 km and maximum width of 2.5 km. The largest depth measures 17 m. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 296 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 842 pixel, file size: 707 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Sihlsee Metadata This... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 743 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1003 × 809 pixel, file size: 132 KB, MIME type: image/png) Description: Map of Sihlsee, Switzerland Designer: Tschubby Licence: File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... View from hiking trail between Ibergeregg and Spirstock Schwyz (German  ) is a canton in central Switzerland between Lake Lucerne in the south and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A man-made lake in Keukenhof, Netherlands A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... ... The Sihl is a river of Switzerland. ... The Sihl is a river of Switzerland. ... A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (yellow outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (blue lines) of a contiguous area. ... Einsiedeln is a small municipality in Switzerland best known for its monastery, the Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey and as place where Paracelsus born. ... View from hiking trail between Ibergeregg and Spirstock Schwyz (German  ) is a canton in central Switzerland between Lake Lucerne in the south and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ...

The power plant project started in 1932. A concrete dam and two viaducts over the lake were built before 1937 the valley was flooded. Thus 55 farms disappeared completely and 1762 persons had to leave their homeland.

The Sihlsee has a volume of approximately 96 millions m³ and feeds the Etzelwerk in Altendorf at the Upper Lake Zurich which supplies current for the Swiss Railways SBB. ... Locomotive of the SBB-CFF-FFS Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland. ...

The break of the concrete dam of the Sihlsee could lead, according to studies, to an 8 m high flood wave in the city of Zürich, the biggest city in Switzerland. View of the inner city with the four main churches visible, and the Albis in the backdrop Zürich (German: , Zürich German: Züri , French: , in English generally Zurich, Italian: ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and...

Sihlsee with Fluebrig

Northern shore

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