Taxerhof Lake
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The small Taxerhof Lake (German: Taxerhofsee) is located on a height of 827 meters approx. 2 km southern above the village of Ampass
in the district Innsbruck Land, Tyrol
, Austria
.
On the one hand the lake is mainly used for raising fishes and bathing is not allowed. On the other hand the Lake is the rest of a humid biotope
and was declared a nature reserve by Ampass. On the shores reed regions, humid meadows with some rare plant communities can be found.
(e.g.: small sedges and black alders). The Lake is also a retreat area for rare birds such as heron
and wagtail
.
Mainly kinds of carp
s and trout
s are bred. The lake has a good water quality between A and B grade. It is fed by groundwater
and supply pipe of the near Taxer spring
.
Ampass
Ampass is a municipality in the Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol situated at an altitude of 651 m, has an area of 7.9 km2 and 1644 inhabitants as January 2011.-Geography:...
in the district Innsbruck Land, Tyrol
Tyrol (state)
Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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On the one hand the lake is mainly used for raising fishes and bathing is not allowed. On the other hand the Lake is the rest of a humid biotope
Biotope
Biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals. Biotope is almost synonymous with the term habitat, but while the subject of a habitat is a species or a population, the subject of a biotope is a biological community.It...
and was declared a nature reserve by Ampass. On the shores reed regions, humid meadows with some rare plant communities can be found.
(e.g.: small sedges and black alders). The Lake is also a retreat area for rare birds such as heron
Heron
The herons are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae. There are 64 recognised species in this family. Some are called "egrets" or "bitterns" instead of "heron"....
and wagtail
Wagtail
The wagtails form the passerine bird genus Motacilla. They are small birds with long tails which they wag frequently. Motacilla, the root of the family and genus name, means moving tail...
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Mainly kinds of carp
Carp
Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia. The cypriniformes are traditionally grouped with the Characiformes, Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes to create the superorder Ostariophysi, since these groups have certain...
s and trout
Trout
Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...
s are bred. The lake has a good water quality between A and B grade. It is fed by groundwater
Groundwater
Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock...
and supply pipe of the near Taxer spring
Spring (hydrosphere)
A spring—also known as a rising or resurgence—is a component of the hydrosphere. Specifically, it is any natural situation where water flows to the surface of the earth from underground...
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