Blue Lake (Porta Westfalica)
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| Geographical location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Location close to the shore | Porta Westfalica , Minden , Bad Oeynhausen | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 '49 " N , 8 ° 56' 3" E | |
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The Blue Lake is a lake in an abandoned quarry in the Neesen district of the East Westphalian city of Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalia . The turquoise lake is located in the middle of the military training area of the same name for the Bundeswehr . The flora includes pondweed , water mint and pond sedge , the fauna include common toad and mountain newt .
history
The Blue Lake was created as one of two lime pits of the Porta-Union Westfalica cement works in Neesen . Limestone was extracted here in order to burn cement . The company was founded in 1889 as Portland cement factory and fell in 1931 to the Great Depression to the victim. On New Year's Eve 1899/1900 the upper pit ran full of water and could no longer be used as a source of raw materials. The lake created here was used as a bathing lake for a long time, until the 1950s .
The lower pit continued to be extracted until the plant was shut down on January 1, 1931. The disused site was used by the Wehrmacht from 1938 , and the pioneers from Minden practiced here. In 1956 the newly founded Bundeswehr took over the area as a military training area .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nhporta.de/exkursionen.html
- ↑ Porta Westfalica in old views , accessed on September 23, 2018.
- ^ Heimatpflege Bad Oeynhausen: Der Blaue See im Wesergebirge , accessed on September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Nammen Info: NS relicts , accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ Narrow gauge East Westphalia: Neesen: Zementwerk Porta-Union Westfalia , accessed on September 23, 2018.