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Particularly striking, you can walk all the way around it.

A walk around the reservoir is always possible, even when the weather isn't so good.

Coming up from the valley, past cows that know more about the world than they'd care to admit, it suddenly appears before you: the Latschau reservoir. Smooth as a promise and green-blue like the cover of a travel brochure that means business. No waves, no reeds, no fishing boats. Just water and concrete – and behind them, the silhouettes of the mountains that act as if they already belong to another world. It's one of those unreal scenes that makes you pause for a moment – not because you have to, but because the surroundings suddenly do something to you. The lake lies there like an eye that sees everything. The path around it is wide and easy to walk, but your thoughts become slow, almost reverential.

The Lünersee, an old mountain lake transformed into a reservoir by a dam, is one of the largest lakes in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. It is located in the municipality of Vandans. Its pumped-storage power plant, the Lünerseewerk, with an initial capacity of 225 MW, was for a long time the most powerful pumped-storage power plant in the world. Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCnersee

The Lünersee was once a natural mountain lake. The construction of a dam in 1959 transformed it into a reservoir with a capacity of 78.3 million m3. When full, the lake is 139 m deep. The circular trail around the lake is largely family-friendly and easy to walk.

The Latschau reservoir is divided into two basins, which are assigned to the Rodundwerke. Basin I was completed in 1943, and Basin II in 1972.

Not only the reservoir, there is a lot to experience all around, big and small

We might have called it Tulip Lake 🌷😉, it's probably in the eye of the beholder. No matter how - definitely beautiful 🤩!