Editing Lake Zug

{{Short description|Lake in Switzerland}}
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{{Infobox body of water
| name             = Lake Zug
| native_name      ={{native name|de|Zugersee}}
| image            = Aussicht Winter Rigi Zugersee.jpg
| image_bathymetry = Karte Zugersee.png|caption_bathymetry = Map
| location         = [[Central Switzerland]]
| lake_type        =
| coords           = {{coord|47|7|N|8|29|E|type:waterbody_region:CH|display=inline,title}}
| inflow           = [[Lorze]]
| outflow          = Lorze
| catchment        = {{convert|204|km2|abbr=on}}
| basin_countries  = Switzerland
| length           = {{convert|13.8|km|abbr=on}}
| width            = {{convert|4.7|km|abbr=on}}
| area             = {{convert|38.3|km2|abbr=on}}
| depth            = {{convert|83.2|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| max-depth        = {{convert|197|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| volume           = {{convert|3.2|km3|abbr=on}}
| residence_time   = 14.7
| elevation        = {{convert|417|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| sections         = Obersee, Untersee
| reference        =
| cities           = [[Zug]], [[Arth]], [[Buonas]], [[Cham, Switzerland|Cham]], [[Immensee (village)|Immensee]], [[Oberwil bei Zug|Oberwil]], [[Risch]], [[Walchwil]], [[Meierskappel]]
| pushpin_map=Canton of Zug#Canton of Lucerne#Canton of Schwyz#Switzerland#Alps
| pushpin_label_position= bottom
| embedded      = {{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |zoom=10 |coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}}
}}
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'''Lake Zug''' ({{langx|de|Zugersee}}) is a lake in [[Central Switzerland]], situated between [[Lake Lucerne]] and [[Lake Zurich]]. It stretches for {{cvt|14|km}} between [[Arth]] and the [[Cham, Switzerland|Cham]]-[[Zug]] bay. The [[Lorze]] as the main feeder river empties its waters into the lake at its northern extremity, but {{cvt|1|km|mi|1}} further west issues from the lake to pursue its course towards the [[Reuss (river)|Reuss]]. Due to this poor feeding, Environmental protection is very important as the lake would suffer long term damage if polluted as the second of the rivers, ''Rigiaa'', feeds only a marginal amount into the lake at its southern end. Already a great part of the fauna in the deep parts of the lake has been lost.

==Background==
[[File:Zuger See SK 0009.jpg|301x301px|thumb|left|Lake Zug with view of [[Rigi]]]]

The lake is mostly within the borders of the [[Canton of Zug]], with about {{convert|10|km2}} at its southern end in the canton [[Schwyz]], while the [[Canton of Lucerne]] claims about {{cvt|2|km2}} to the north of [[Küssnacht|Immensee]]. Toward the south-west extremity of the lake the [[Rigi]] descends rather steeply to the water's edge, while part of its east shore forms a narrow level band at the foot of the {{cvt|1583|m|ft}} [[Rossberg]], and the [[Zugerberg]]. The culminating point of the lake's drainage basin is the summit of the Rigi at {{cvt|1798|m}}.<ref>{{cite map |publisher= [[Swisstopo]] |title= 1:25,000 topographic map |url= http://s.geo.admin.ch/71a44a89c |access-date= 2014-07-30 }}</ref>

At its northern end, the shores are nearly level, while on the west shore the wooded promontory of Buonas (with its castles, old and new) projects picturesquely into the waters. The principal place on the lake is the town of [[Zug]]. Three railways follow the shore of the lake, one from [[Zürich]] via Zug and [[Arth-Goldau]] to [[Saint-Gotthard Massif|Saint-Gotthard]], one from [[Lucerne]] via Arth-Goldau to Saint-Gotthard, and the third from Zürich via Zug to Lucerne.

Many fish (including [[pike (fish)|pike]] and [[carp]] of considerable weights) are taken in the lake, which is especially famous for an [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] kind of [[trout]] (''[[Salvelinus umbla|Salmo salvelinus]]'', locally called ''Rolheli'').<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Zug, Lake of|volume=28|page=1048|first=William Augustus Beevoort |last=Coolidge |author-link=W. A. B. Coolidge}}</ref>

== History ==
The first [[Steamboat|steamer]] was placed on the lake in 1852.<ref name="EB1911"/>

In the early 20th century, a railway (formerly part of the [[Gotthard Pass|St. Gotthard]] main route) ran along its eastern shore past [[Walchwil]] to [[Arth]] at its south end, which was connected initially by a steam [[tramway (industrial)|tramway]] with the [[Arth-Goldau]] station of the St. Gotthard line. This line runs from [[Arth]] along the western shore to Immensee, where it bears south-west to Lucerne, while from Immensee another railway leads (at first some way from the shore) to [[Cham, Switzerland|Cham]], {{convert|5|km|0}} west of Zug.<ref name="EB1911"/>

== Settlements ==
*[[Arth]]
**Gängigen
*Buonas
*[[Cham, Switzerland|Cham]]
*Chämleten
*[[Immensee (village)|Immensee]]
*[[Risch]]
*[[Walchwil]]
*[[Zug]]
**Lorzen
**Oberwil

==Public Transportation ==

Public transportation on Lake Zug is done by the  Zugersee Schifffahrt / '''Schifffahrtsgesellschaft für den Zugersee AG (SGZ)''' .<ref>[http://www.zugersee-schifffahrt.ch/ueber-uns/flotte/ Die Flotte]</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Präfix
! Name
! Year / Origin / Warft
! <small>Length / wide / deep / max. Pax.</small>
! Note:
! Picture
|-
| MS
| ''Zug''
| 2003 / [[Linz]] / Österreichische Schiffswerften AG<ref>[http://www.zugersee-schifffahrt.ch/ueber-uns/geschichte/ Geschichte]</ref>
| 45,60&nbsp;m / 9,20&nbsp;m / 1,20&nbsp;m / 450
| in use
| [[File:MS Zug Schiffsstation Bahnhof Einsteigen.jpg|140px]]
|-
| MS
| ''Schwyz''
| 1997 / Kressbronn / [[Bodan-Werft]]
| 31,20&nbsp;m / 7,00&nbsp;m / 1,00&nbsp;m / 150
| in use
| [[File:Picswiss ZG-04-44.jpg|140px]]
|-
| MS
| ''Rigi''
| 1992 / Kressbronn / Bodan Werft
| 46,50&nbsp;m / 9,50&nbsp;m / 1,60&nbsp;m / 450
| in use
| [[File:Picswiss ZG-04-38.jpg|140px]]
|-
| MS
| ''Schwan''
| 1923 / [[Lauenburg/Elbe|Lauenburg an der Elbe]] / [[Hitzler Werft]]
| 17,23&nbsp;m / 3,67&nbsp;m / 0,40&nbsp;m
| ex. ''Morgarten'' (1923-1949); ex. ''Harder'' (1949-2001); in use
| [[File:MS Schwan.jpg|140px]]
|-
|}

==References==
* {{cite web | title=Products for Zugersee - Zug (EDV: 2017) | url=http://www.hydrodaten.admin.ch/en/2017.html#aktuelle_daten | publisher=Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) | date=23 May 2009 | access-date=2009-05-23}}
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==External links==
* [http://www.zugersee-schifffahrt.ch/ Zugersee Schifffahrt lake cruises]

{{Lakes of Switzerland}}
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[[Category:Lakes of Switzerland|Zug]]
[[Category:Lakes of the canton of Zug|Zug]]
[[Category:Lakes of the canton of Schwyz|Zug]]
[[Category:Lakes of the canton of Lucerne|Zug]]
[[Category:Reuss basin|LZug]]
[[Category:Lucerne–Schwyz border]]
[[Category:Lucerne–Zug border]]
[[Category:Schwyz–Zug border]]
[[Category:Lakes of the Swiss Alps|Zug]]