Mastholter lake
| Mastholter lake | ||
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| Mastholter See, seen from the south bank | ||
| Geographical location | Ostwestfalen-Lippe | |
| Location close to the shore | Rietberg | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 45 '12 " N , 8 ° 24' 33" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 77 m | |
| surface | 26.6 ha | |
| length | 680 m | |
| width | 490 m | |
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particularities |
Largest body of water in the Gütersloh district |
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The Mastholter Lake , also called by its owner Benteler lake called, is incurred by sand mining lake east of the city Rietberg belonging village Mastholte .
location
The Mastholter See is located within the Ems sand plain in the south of the Gütersloh district and, with an area of around 26.6 hectares, is the largest water area in the district Westenholz to the city of Delbrück . Although the body of water lies in the catchment area of the Glenne , there is no direct connection to a river.
Emergence
The Mastholter See is not a natural body of water, but an artificial body of water created for the economic extraction of sand . After sporadic sand mining was already carried out on today's lake surface at the beginning of the 20th century, commercial use of the area began in the early 1970s. When it became apparent that the sand deposits were exhausted at the beginning of the 1980s, further test boreholes were carried out with the result that the existing sand layer from a depth of seven meters was increasingly interspersed with marl and there was no further usable sand below this layer either.
The project to expand the lake area in a westerly direction and thus to approach the Mastholter settlement area failed due to opposition from politics and the population, so that sand extraction came to a standstill between 1992 and 1998.
After the deeper layers could also be extracted using special equipment from 1998 , sand mining was finally stopped in 2001.
Todays use
Since the end of commercial use, the Mastholter See has primarily served as a local recreation area and can be hiked around on a 2.7 km long circular path. However, the lake is also used by water sports enthusiasts as a windsurfing and sailing area as well as for water skiing . In addition, the water has also been used as a year-round fishing water since 1986. In addition to the main fish species carp and perch , pike , pikeperch , eel , tench , bream , roach and rainbow trout can also be found in the Mastholter See .