Lake Boden is the third largest in Central Europe. More than him only Geneva in Switzerland and Balaton in Hungary. However, in volume, which is 50 cubic meters, it even surpasses the balanced. The record water level was registered in May 1999 and became the largest since 1890. In the spring, he, on the contrary, was the lowest – 280 cm.
Few people know that this magnificent reservoir does not belong to anyone! Comfortable states in Germany, Switzerland and Austria can not agree on where the border should go through the water. At the same time, the shores have long been divided. The longest site was captured by Germany, the rest went to Switzerland and Austria.
And since the owner does not have a master – it means that it is at the bottom of the reservoir. This is, first of all, the fragments of a large number of ships – from Roman merchant ships to sports boats. At a depth of 200 m lies, for example, the steel housing of the Helvetia wheel steamer, flooded in 1932. According to scientists, the wreckage of another steamer – Jura, which collided in 1864 with another vessel and sank to the bottom in just three minutes,. There is even a sports plane that fell into the lake in 1994. Together with their five passengers. They all drowned then.