Leipzig New Lakeland

Elsterstausee (below), Cospudener See (middle), Markkleeberger See (above)

Zwenkau lake

Kulkwitzer See

Zöbigker Winkel water sports center on Lake Cospuden

Image of Zwenkauer See and Cospudener See from the International Space Station

The Leipziger Neuseenland is a partially emerging post- mining landscape that belongs to the Central German Lakeland . These include shares in the Leipzig district , in the northern Saxony district and in the city of Leipzig. As part of the recultivation and renaturation of the former lignite extraction and its facilities, numerous bodies of water have emerged from the remaining open-cast mining holes , which will fill up over the next few years and decades and which are to be partly connected with canals. The lake network is to take up a water area of around 70 km² and be used for tourism as well as for flood protection.

As part of the application by the city of Leipzig for the 2012 Olympic Games , the New Lake District was intended for competitions in sports such as rowing , canoeing , canoe slalom , tennis, mountain biking, cycling, trap and skeet shooting , triathlon and beach volleyball . The Markkleeberg Canoe Park was built for this in Markkleeberg .

Lakes

To the lakes of the Leipzig Neuseenland include , among others :

Surname	Final size	End of flooding	use
Bockwitz lake	170 ha	2005	mostly reserved for nature conservation, beaches planned
Cospudener See	436 ha	2000	Water sports and leisure center
Domsener See (→ Domsen )	920 ha	2046
Groitzscher See (→ Groitzsch )	869 ha	2060	Landscape lake, local recreation (planned)
Hainer See	387 ha	2007	Water sports and leisure center (planned)
Hard Sea	65 ha	1995	Swimming lake, gastronomy, campsite
Haselbacher See	335 ha	2002	Water sports, swimming lake
Haubitzer See	160 ha	2007	Water sports and leisure center (planned)
Kahnsdorfer See	112 ha	2007	natural reserve
Kulkwitzer See	150 ha	1983	Water sports and leisure center
Markkleeberger See	252 ha	2006	Water sports and leisure center (partly under construction)
Peres lake	699 ha	2051	Landscape lake, local recreation (planned)
Schladitzer See	220 ha	2012	Water sports and leisure center
Schwerzauer See (→ Schwerzau )	840 ha	2060
Borna reservoir	265 ha	1980	Flood protection, fish farming, nature conservation, natural beaches
Witznitz reservoir	236 ha	1954	Reservoir
Störmthaler See	730 ha	2011	Tourism, water sports, nature conservation, art projects
Werbener See	80 ha	2000	Bathing lake, fishing area
Zwenkau lake	970 ha	2015	Leisure and recreation, nature and flood protection (planned)

720-degree camera panning from the observation tower diocese: Cospudener See, Zwenkauer See and the former Elsterstausee Bösdorf are visible

Saxon State Office for Environment and Geology; Sächsisches Oberbergamt (Ed.): The lignite mining in the southern area of Leipzig. Dresden 2004. ( digitized version )
Ronald Kunze: On the planning renewal of the industrial legacy in the southern Leipzig area. Urban planning competitions for industrial areas and commercial sites. In: Ronald Kunze, Ursula von Petz, Dirk Schubert, Max Welch Guerra (eds.): Yearbook Urban Renewal 1997. Berlin, pp. 103–114.

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