Gribehner ponds
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| Geographical location | Saxony-Anhalt | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 55 '22 " N , 11 ° 46' 57" E | |
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The Gribehner ponds are a protected biotope near Calbe (Saale) . It is located between the Wartenberg and the Saale .
In the Middle Ages, the village of Gribehne, which is now abandoned, was located at today's biotope . With the arrival of the industrial revolution in Calbe 150 years ago, lignite was also promoted north of the city to operate steam engines ; this measure was promoted by Karl Leopold Fabian . From 1854 to around 1864 the cloth manufacturers, the Nicolai brothers, and other shareholders ran the Emma and Charlotte mines here . The systems soon had to be abandoned due to the ingress of groundwater too intensively . The earth sank into the abandoned tunnels, and the water that ran into the holes formed what is now known as the Gribehner Teiche , the area of water and swamps.
Web links
- Calbe - City in the Green ( Memento from January 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )