{{Infobox body of water | name = Bannalpsee | image = Bannalpsee.jpg | caption = | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Nidwalden | coords = {{coord|46|52|06|N|8|25|44|E|region:CH-NW_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} | type = reservoir | inflow = | outflow = | catchment = {{convert|8.16|km2|abbr=on}} | basin_countries = Switzerland | length = | width = | area = {{convert|16|ha|abbr=on}} | depth = | max-depth = | volume = {{convert|1.7|e6m3|acre.ft|abbr=out}} | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = | islands = | cities = | pushpin_map=Canton of Nidwalden#Switzerland#Alps | pushpin_label_position= bottom | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 }} __NOTOC__
'''Bannalpsee''' is a reservoir in the municipality of Wolfenschiessen in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden.<ref name=swmap>{{cite map | publisher = Swiss Confederation | title = map.geo.admin.ch | url = http://map.geo.admin.ch/?selectedNode=node_ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-kanton-flaeche.fill1&Y=672885.5&X=195627&zoom=8&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&layers=ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill&layers_opacity=1&layers_visibility=true&lang=en | accessdate = 2013-01-08}}</ref>
The reservoir's surface area is {{convert|16|ha}}. The construction of the reservoir was decided in 1934 and completed in 1937. The reservoir is operated by Elektrizitätswerk Nidwalden.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swissdams.ch/Dams/damForm/default_e.asp?ID=69 |title=Bannalp |publisher=Swiss Committee on Dams |accessdate=2013-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206233926/http://www.swissdams.ch/Dams/damForm/default_e.asp?ID=69 |archive-date=2012-02-06 }}</ref>
The lake can be reached by a cable car from Oberrickenbach, which in turn is linked by post bus service to Wolfenschiessen station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.<ref name=swmap/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/fileadmin/fap_pdf_fields/2013/60.331.pdf | title = Wolfenschiessen–Oberrickenbach (Linie 331) | publisher = Bundesamt für Verkehr | accessdate = 2013-01-22}}</ref>
==See also== *List of mountain lakes of Switzerland
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120206233926/http://www.swissdams.ch/Dams/damForm/default_e.asp?ID=69 Swissdams: Bannalp] *Fabienne Künzli: {{cite web|url= http://www.rhone-thur.eawag.ch/DA_Kuenzli.pdf |title=Fischökologische Untersuchung in vier schwallbeeinflussten Schweizer Fliessgewässern }} {{small|(1.83 MiB)}}
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