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Church Tower in Lake Resia (Reschensee)

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Church Tower in Lake Resia (Reschensee)

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Location: Graun - Curon Venosta, South Tyrol, Italy

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1. Nauders Castle – Descent to Burgeis Cycle Path loop from Martina

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2. Descent to Burgeis Cycle Path – Curon loop from Mals - Malles Venosta

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3. Reschensee (Lake Resia) – Cycle Path Along Lake Resia loop from Reschen - Resia

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Ingo Weiß

September 14, 2023

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Paul

September 11, 2021

Reschensee
Lake Reschen is a reservoir in the municipality of Graun in western South Tyrol, which serves as an upper basin for the Glurns storage power plant. The lake is located just south of the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau or Vinschger Oberland, the highest section of the Adige Valley.
The water of the Etsch, the Rojenbach, the Karlinbach and some smaller tributaries is dammed in Lake Reschen. The artificial lake, six kilometers long and around one kilometer wide at its widest point, has a storage volume of 120 million m³, which is almost entirely used as a storage volume and thus forms a so-called annual storage facility. The water from the reservoir is conveyed via a twelve-kilometer-long pressure tunnel with a diameter of three meters on the left side of the valley to above the cavern power plant near Schluderns, where it drives two 52.5 MVA generators with a head of 586 meters via two Pelton turbines each. The average annual production of electrical energy is around 250 gigawatt hours.

In the immediate vicinity of the lake are the municipality's main town, Graun, the villages of Reschen and St. Valentin auf der Haide, as well as the hamlets of Kaschon and Spin.

Until the lake was dammed in 1950, there were three lakes on the Reschen Pass: Lake Reschen, Lake Mittersee (also called Grauner Lake) and Haidersee, which still exists today. When the lake was dammed, the entire village of Graun and a large part of the village of Reschen sank into the waters of the reservoir, a total of 163 houses and 523 hectares of fertile cultivated land were flooded. Today only the church tower protruding from Lake Reschen remains evidence of the flooded Alt-Graun.
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DeisiH✅

October 31, 2020

The tower in the lake - the landmark of the Vinschgau is at the same time magical and fascinating: a sunken church tower rises lonely from the 6 km long, clear Reschensee, against the mountain backdrop of the rustic Langtaufer valley. But the story behind the well-known postcard motif, the “tower in the lake”, is far less idyllic: the small Romanesque church from the 14th century is a silent witness to an irresponsible damming of the lake shortly after the end of the Second World War.

Fascism had been raging in Italy and thus also in South Tyrol since 1922. In 1939, the large corporation "Montecatini" submitted a project to dam Lake Reschen and Lake Grauner by 22 meters. The population of Reschen and Graun was completely ignored. However, the outbreak of the Second World War delayed the construction project that had already begun. The residents of the Upper Vinschgau believed that they would be rid of this specter forever. But to the dismay of the affected residents, in 1947, just two years after the end of the war, the Montecatini announced that work on the dam project would be resumed immediately.

In the summer of 1950 the time had come. The locks were closed and Lake Reschen was dammed. 677 hectares of land were flooded, almost 150 families were deprived of their livelihoods and half of them were forced to emigrate. The compensation was very modest. The residents of Graun were then temporarily accommodated in a barracks camp that had been hastily set up at the exit of the Langtaufer Valley. As a result of the fascist dam project, hundreds of families from Graun and Reschen lost their existence.

Today the tower in Lake Reschen is a listed building and is a landmark of the municipality of Graun and a crowd puller.

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