Esbacher See

Esbacher See
Geographical location	Upper Franconia
Tributaries	no
Drain	no
Data
Coordinates	50 ° 17 '24 "  N , 11 ° 0' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '24 "  N , 11 ° 0' 26"  E
Altitude above sea level	327  m above sea level NN
surface	6.4 ha
Maximum depth	40 m
particularities	Brick pond , sky pond

The Esbacher See , also Dörfleser Tongrube, is a former clay pit in the municipality of Dörfles-Esbach and is the deepest body of water in Northern Bavaria with a water depth of over 40 m.

The water is listed as an official secondary biotope and a protected landscape component.

The lake gives its name to the northern junction of the Dörfles-Esbach curve .

history

The clay pit was created by the brickworks that have been based in Dörfles-Esbach since the 1890s. After World War II , mining and manufacturing took on an industrial scale in the 1950s. The clay pit began to gradually fill in in the mid-1970s due to precipitation and groundwater inflows , and in the 1980s it grew into an approximately two- hectare lake with an island. In 1986 the steam brick factory in Esbach stopped mining. After that, the clay pit was owned by the association for waste management in north-west Upper Franconia . On October 1, 1984, the local council revoked its approval for use as a landfill and in 1991 the community finally bought the clay pit. Towards the end of the 1990s, the surface of the water had reached its current size of about six hectares, and the island has since sunk in the floods.

geology

The abandoned and partially flooded brickworks mine opens up the base of the Lehrberg layers as well as reed sandstone in a strongly silty tone. This type of facade is unique in the Coburg area.

Web links

Commons : Esbacher See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Göpfert: The former steam brick factory Esbach with its clay pit, the current Esbacher Lake as a local recreation destination and biotope

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New press : Esbacher See is full to the brim . October 17, 2009.