Erikasee
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| Geographical location | Lusatian lignite mining district , Saxony and Brandenburg , Germany | |
| Tributaries | Crawl ditch | |
| Drain | Crawl ditch | |
| Places on the shore | Lauta | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '23 " N , 14 ° 4' 38" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 107.4 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 1.8 km² | |
| length | 6.85 km | |
| width | 1 km | |
| volume | 8.10 million m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 10 m | |
| Middle deep | 4.5 m | |
The Erikasee is a lignite open pit in the Lusatian lignite area . Most of it is in Saxony. Only the north-western part extends into the state of Brandenburg. The lake emerged from the former open-cast mine “Grube Erika”, later “ Laubusch ”.
location
The Erikasee extends mainly in an east-west direction north of the city of Lauta . In the west it is bounded by the federal highway 96 , in the north by the district of Tätzschwitz , which belongs to the municipality of Elsterheide . The garden city of Grube Erika Laubusch is located at the easternmost foothills of the lake . The Kortitzmühle open-cast mine is located in the northeast. Before the renovation work, this was part of Lake Erika's. In the easternmost part of the former mining area is the Lugteich , another residual hole. Large parts of the area are restricted areas designated by the responsible redevelopment agency LMBV .
Emergence
The first exploration work for the “Erika pit” mine was carried out between Laubusch and Nardt as early as 1913. Until 1962, the opencast mine produced lignite for the surrounding energy industries of the briquette factory "Grube Erika" Laubusch and the Lauta power station. After the area to the east of Laubusch had been charred, mining swiveled in a westerly direction between Lautawerk-Nord and Tätzschwitz. After swiveling in again, the mining machines reached their final position west of the Lautawerk-Nord district. Due to the rise in groundwater and the flow of the creeping ditch , the lake reached its current size. A part of the open-cast mine, which forms today's (half) island, was backfilled using overburden. Extensive renovation work in the 1990s and early 2000s secured the embankments for the most part in order to prevent landslides and settlement flows .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g "Environmental Research Plan of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety - Final Report Brown Coal Opencast Mines in Germany, pp. 162–164 (Status: November 1999)" ( Memento from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Visuelle Lausitz eV: Erika opencast mine
- ^ "Changes and Perspectives", Issue 11 - Erika / Laubusch
