Indescher See

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Inden opencast mine in the Rhenish lignite district
View into the open pit, 2003

Indescher See or Indescher Ozean is the name for an artificial lake that is to be created after the Inden opencast mine near Inden in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia , is to be created.

history

According to the original plan, the remaining hole in the open pit should be filled with earth. In September 2006, the Inden municipal council submitted an application that the remaining hole in the opencast mine should Template: future / in 5 yearsbecome a recreational lake from 2035 onwards . The lake would then have an area of ​​1,160 ha (corresponds to 11.6 km²) and would be the largest lake in North Rhine-Westphalia. However, even larger lakes are being planned for the nearby Garzweiler (23 km²) and Hambach (42 km²) opencast mines . The depth of the planned lake should be up to 180 meters.

The lake would be roughly in the area of ​​the Inden II open-cast mine, the places Schophoven , Merken and Lucherberg directly on the lake. Similar to what is already happening on the remaining open pit lakes in eastern Germany, use should also be possible in Inden from 2035; then a growing range of leisure activities and especially water sports is expected. The final level should be reached in 2065.

An alternative recultivation option is backfilling with earth. However, this would require a 5.5 km long belt road (also shown in the lignite map), past 8,000 people in six villages, which would become superfluous if it were filled with water from the nearby Rur .

Legal disputes

The lignite committee of the Cologne district government decided on December 5, 2008, despite the objections of the city of Düren , to flood the remaining hole of the opencast mine to a residual lake from 2030, instead of filling it with earth. The city of Düren filed a lawsuit against the change in the lignite plan before the state constitutional court in Münster , since it saw its planning sovereignty violated. The city sees itself cut off from neighboring cities by the planned lake. She also fears that the rest of the lake may not be safe and that landslides could happen similar to the one in 2009 on Lake Concordia . During the hearing on October 25, 2011, the city of Düren's constitutional suit was dismissed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Next step for the remaining lake Inden. Aachener Zeitung, May 3, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The largest lake in North Rhine-Westphalia is being built in Inden. (No longer available online.) Aachener Zeitung, December 5, 2008, archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; accessed on August 6, 2011 : "The district of Düren and four municipalities had pleaded for the lake as part of their" Indeland "project."
  3. ↑ Burkhard Giesen: Lawsuit against the rest of the lake: "We still have hope". Aachener Nachrichten, October 25, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 3.9 ″  E