Haubitzer See

Haubitzer See
In the background the former Thierbach power station
Geographical location	District of Leipzig
Places on the shore	Borna
Data
Coordinates	51 ° 9 '40 "  N , 12 ° 29' 17"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '40 "  N , 12 ° 29' 17"  E
Altitude above sea level	126  m above sea level NN
surface	1.6 km²
volume	25,000,000 m³
Maximum depth	49 m
particularities	Open pit residual lake

The Haubitzer See , like the neighboring Hainer See and Kahnsdorfer See, emerged from the "Witznitz II" open-cast lignite mine and is part of the Leipziger Neuseenland . It is located north of Borna and south of Leipzig in the Neukieritzsch municipality and reached its final water level in 2006.

See also

• Saxon Lake District
• List of bodies of water in Saxony

literature

• Lutz Schiffer et al. (Ed.): Mining residual lakes in Central Germany. Nautical compass. Chemnitz / Espenhain 2002

Web links

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

• The Witznitz opencast mine and its subsequent landscape on the LMBV website