Green lake (Melsunger Bergland)
Green lake | ||
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Green lake in the Melsunger Bergland | ||
Geographical location | Eiterhagen , Melsunger Bergland , Kassel District , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
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Coordinates | 51 ° 10 '52 " N , 9 ° 34' 41" E | |
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Altitude above sea level | 410 m above sea level NHN |
The Green Lake is a still water in the Melsunger Bergland near Eiterhagen in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .
geography
location
The Green Lake , also known as the Green Lake of Eiterhagen , is located in the northwest part of the Melsunger Bergland 1.3 km southwest of the village of Eiterhagen, the southernmost part of the municipality of Söhrewald . In the Schwalm-Eder district to the west, in the municipality of Körle, lies the village of Ober-Empfershausen, 1.5 km to the west-north-west, as the upper or north-eastern district of Empfershausen . About 900 m north-west of the lake in the forest, the Fulda tributary Mülmisch flows in a deeply cut valley .
Natural allocation
The Green Lake belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) to the subunit Melsunger Bergland (with Günsteröder Höhe ) (357.6).
Emergence
The Green Lake, which is partially surrounded by steep basalt slopes, was created by groundwater, precipitation and surface water flowing into an abandoned open- cast mine. In the past, gravel , for example, was extracted from the mining materials .
filming
In 2017, Marlene Klinkenberg , a student at the Kassel Art College , shot the video Der See am Grünen See von Eiterhagen for her thesis .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)