Amber Lake (Stüde)
Amber lake | ||
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Beach area of the amber lake | ||
Geographical location | Sassenburg , Gifhorn district , Lower Saxony | |
Places on the shore | Hours | |
Data | ||
Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '34 " N , 10 ° 39' 59" E | |
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surface | 9.5 ha | |
length | 400 m | |
width | 300 m | |
Maximum depth | 16 m | |
PH value | 7.3 | |
particularities |
Quarry pond |
The Bernsteinsee is a still water in Sassenburg in the district of Gifhorn ( Lower Saxony ).
geography
The lake on the outskirts of the Stüde district was created in 1971 when the Elbe Lateral Canal was built as a quarry pond and was converted into a swimming lake . The Amber Lake is now a recreational area and holiday resort. It is about 15 kilometers from the cities of Gifhorn and Wolfsburg .
description
The 9.5 hectare large and up to 16 meters deep Bernsteinsee is located near Stüde directly on the Elbe Lateral Canal in a forest , heather and moor landscape on the eastern edge of the Great Moor . The lake has no tributaries and has a large bathing beach made of fine-grained white sand. The water quality is described as "excellent". The lake water shimmers turquoise because of the sand underground . There is a glider airfield in the vicinity of the lake . About twelve kilometers south of Gifhorn , also on the Elbe Lateral Canal, is the six times larger Tankumsee in Isenbüttel . It was also created in the course of the canal construction and also developed into a local recreation area.
Emergence
For the construction of the Elbe Lateral Canal near Stüde in 1970, amounts of sand in the order of half a million cubic meters were required to fill the six meter high canal embankments. The choice of location fell on a former sand extraction point near Stüde, where the community had been planning a bathing facility since 1969. This made it possible to plan a bathing lake with the participation of various authorities, such as the water and shipping authority and the district of Gifhorn , and there was no fallow sand extraction point. The dredging work was carried out by a dredger . That transfer did Bernstein reveal who gave the lake its name.
Holiday and recreation area
The lake was completed in the summer of 1971 and Hilfred Schönberger acquired the water and around 100 hectares of surrounding areas with pine forests in the same year. Over the years, he created a nature and holiday area that has been carefully developed by Baucon Immobilien Management GmbH from Cologne since 2009 . In addition to various overnight accommodation options, the on-site offer includes dining facilities and extensive leisure activities.
literature
- Dieter Hoppe : Find relaxation on amber. In: Museums and excursion destinations in the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area. Gifhorn 1989.
See also
Web links
- Website of the nature and holiday area Bernsteinsee
- Bathing water atlas Lower Saxony: Amber lake
- Underwater photos from the amber lake
Individual evidence
- ^ Bathing water atlas Lower Saxony: Bernsteinsee (determined 2008-2010) (accessed on November 7, 2014)
- ↑ a b Bathing Waters Atlas Lower Saxony: Bernsteinsee, as of 2008–2010 (PDF), accessed on April 25, 2017
- ^ Holiday and weekend area and leisure area in Sassenburg. Internet presence of Baucon Immobilien Management GmbH, accessed on June 29, 2018