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The Möll (; presumably from sl, Mel, "rubble") is a river in northwestern Carinthia in
The Möll then runs down to Heiligenblut, parallel to the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, and further southwards separating the mountains of the Schober Group in the west from the Goldberg Group in the east. In the municipality of Winklern, near the border with
File:Goessnitzer stausee.jpg, Gößnitz Reservoir
File:Moell Penk seen from Zwenberg.jpg, Möll near Penk, seen from the Zwenberg
File: Rafting Moell.jpg, Rafting near Napplach
File:Reservoir rottau.jpg, Rottau equalizing basin. Right: the Oberwasser channel, that leads to Möll Valley Power Station. Left: the natural river bed though which only a fraction of the water flows.
File:Malta Unterstufe and Drau.jpg, Möll Valley Power Station. The water now empties into the Drau before the actual mouth of the Möll (left).
Hydrographic service in Carinthia - online survey data
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Austria
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, a left tributary
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of the . Its drainage basin
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is .
Course
The river rises in theHigh Tauern
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range of the Central Eastern Alps on the Pasterze Glacier at the foot of the Grossglockner
The Grossglockner (german: Großglockner ; or just ''Glockner'') is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glock ...
, the highest mountain in Austria. It discharges after near Möllbrücke into the Drava. At the beginning of its course, at the southeastern end of the Pasterze Glacier, it is impounded to form the Margaritze Reservoir, from where part of the water is diverted via pressure tunnels across the Alpine crest and Mt. Wiesbachhorn to the reservoirs of the Verbund hydroelectric power plant in Kaprun, Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
.
The Möll then runs down to Heiligenblut, parallel to the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, and further southwards separating the mountains of the Schober Group in the west from the Goldberg Group in the east. In the municipality of Winklern, near the border with Tyrol
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(East Tyrol
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) at Iselsberg Pass, it turns eastwards running through the broad lower part of the Möll Valley (german: Mölltal) along the northern rim of the Kreuzeck Group.
Downstream near Stall the Möll waters are again impounded into the Gößnitz Reservoir. At Obervellach the river course is joined by the parallel Tauern Railway line descending from Mallnitz and the southern Tauern Tunnel
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portal. Near Kolbnitz and its confluence with the Drava the Möll is once again dammed up to create the Rottau equalizing basin
An equalizing basin (german: Ausgleichsbecken) or equalizing reservoir regulates the flow of water below an intermittently operated hydropower station or peaking power plant. This could be a part-load power station (''Teillast-Durchfluss-Kraftwerk ...
. From here some of the water is diverted to the lower stage of the Malta-Reisseck Power Plant in Möllbrücke.
The Möll is a popular kayak
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The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each ...
white water river and one of the preferred rafting rivers in Carinthia.
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References
External links
Hydrographic service in Carinthia - online survey data
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