Margarethenweiher
The Margarethenweiher in Brühl (Rhineland) is a small lake, coming from Hürth, on the B 265, on the left, just before Gruhlsee, in the Rhein-Erft district in the southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The Margarethenweiher is located on the left on the federal road 265, before the Bleibtreusee lake on the right and the Gruhlsee lake. The lake is on the arterial road from Erftstadt to Liblar , in front of the Bleibtreusee south of the city center of Brühl on the slope of the foothills . The lake is under landscape protection and is one of the numerous villa lakes that were created in the course of the mining of lignite . It is on the left on Luxemburger Straße B 265 , before the entrance to Bleibtreusee.
history
The Margarethenweiher, like the Karauschenweiher , was created from one of the so-called residual holes of the former open-cast brown coal mine around the mid-1930s. It was created when the groundwater rose again. Its area is about 1.9 hectares, the depth 1.3 to 9.6 meters. Like the Karauschenweiher, it is used for fishing and as a quiet body of water, mainly for hiking and recreation.
traffic
Coming from Hürth, the B 265 or Luxemburger Straße leads into a small forest path, which then leads in a straight direction to the Gruhlsee or branching off to the left to the Margarethenweiher. With the bus lines 979 and 990 there are direct connections with one stop. Starting from the Erftstadt stop , the buses from the tram line 18 to the destination.
literature
- Walter Buschmann , Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland , ed. from the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) and the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MBV-NRW), 2008, ISBN 978-3-88462-269-8
- Fritz Wündisch : From Klütten and Briquettes, pictures from the history of the Rhenish lignite mining , Weiden 1964
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 51 ″ N , 6 ° 52 ′ 40 ″ E