Grabsuers Lake
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| Geographical location | southwest of Delitzsch | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '49 " N , 12 ° 16' 55" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 99.2 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 1.29 km² | |
| volume | 4,300,000 m³ | |
| scope | 9.4 km | |
| Maximum depth | 31 m | |
| Middle deep | 3.5 m | |
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The Grabschützer See is an opencast mine about 6 km southwest of Delitzsch and 23 km northwest of Leipzig in Saxony . He lies u. a. in the municipality of Wiedemar and is part of the Saxon Lake District .
Neighboring lakes
The Zwochauer See borders on the Grabschützer See to the south, the Werbeliner See on the east. The Schladitzer See is about 8 km southeast of the lake.
history
The Grabschützer See emerged from the former Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine . It got its name from the town of Grabschütz, which was excavated in 1985, south of today's lake . In the 1980s, the overburden of the opencast mine was tipped over by a conveyor bridge in the area of the Grabschützer See. The German reunification in 1989/90 led to an abrupt cessation of lignite mining.
From 1993 onwards, the large equipment that had become useless had to be removed and the bank areas secured. The resulting lake has been flooded since 1997, the flooding period is planned until 2022. The origin of the flood water is a natural groundwater rise . The goal is a landscape lake. With a current water area of 78 hectares, the water depth of the lake is usually no more than five meters. In 2002 the area of the lake was acquired by the Saxon State Foundation for Nature and Environment from the LMBV . The lake is used exclusively for nature conservation and is largely left to its own devices. This makes it the habitat of a diverse animal and plant world.
A seven-kilometer circular trail has been running around the lake since 2007. The car park north of Zwochau provides access to the Grabschützer and Zwochauer See lakes.
The Grabschützer See has been a bird sanctuary since 2006 and part of the temporarily secured nature reserve Werbeliner See since 2016 .
See also
Web links
- Hiking and nature trail at Grabschützer See
- Zwochauer and Grabschützer See (PDF; 772 KB)
- History of the Delitzsch-Südwest / Breitenfeld opencast mine on the LMBV website