Erfurt lakes

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At the Schwerborn lake

The Erfurt Lakes are currently emerging from a gravel mining area in the north of the state capital of Thuringia .

history

Gravel has been mined in the north of Erfurt for many years . This area is the course of the so-called Ur-Gera , which was looking for a new bed around 18,000 years ago. A total of twelve gravel pits were or are being built over a length of nine kilometers. These gravel pits are filled with groundwater after they have been dismantled so that the resulting water can continue to be used for leisure purposes. For this purpose, on April 3, 2001, a working group was agreed between the state capital Erfurt and the municipality of Nöda on the basis of Section 4 of the Thuringian law on communal community work (ThürKGG). On July 17, 2007 the municipality of Alperstedt also joined this consortium. In addition to the municipalities, the Gramme-Aue administrative association and the gravel works involved are also involved in the project as partners.

Current state

Logo of the project

The following quarry ponds are currently available:

  • Sulzer See (63 ha, until 2015)
  • Schwerborn Lake (63 ha, until 2035)
  • Stotternheimer See (22 ha)
  • Luthersee (13 ha)
  • Mountain path ponds
  • Klingesee (50 ha, 2035)
  • Great Ringsee (52 ha, 2030)
  • Alperstedter See (66 ha)
  • Riethnordhäuser ponds
  • The north beach (17.5 ha)

Five of the lakes are already being prepared for their new use. The largest lake, the Alperstedter See, is already used intensively for sports. In the final stage, three of the lakes will have a water surface of over 60 hectares ; in the final stage, a total water surface of over 430 hectares will be created. In April 2006 the water area totaled 240 hectares.

For cost reasons, there are currently no plans to connect the lakes at different levels.

mark

The logo of the "Erfurter Seen" was developed by the Erfurt graphic artist Michael Buddrus as a word and picture mark . It is used for a wide variety of purposes in the Erfurt Lakes area. This sign is also used in combination with a directional arrow and a bicycle symbol to mark a cycle path.

concept

The Erfurt lakes represent an important natural, sport and leisure region in the north-east of the city of Erfurt. In addition to the local public transport, a close-knit network of cycling and hiking trails is primarily intended to be used.

The "Erfurt lakes" created in the course of gravel extraction the last 100 years and have been since their subsequent recovery was omitted to substitute habitats for many endangered species such as newts , natterjack toad , green toad , ringed plover , wheatear or sand martin . Almost closed reed belts formed along the bank zones , the aquatic and floating leaf plants allow a rich flora and fauna.

Cycle path network

In order to get to the “Erfurt Lakes”, cyclists from the direction of Erfurt can already use two signposted routes with the “Erfurt Lakes” cycle signposts.

  • Route 1: From the junction from the Gera cycle path at Teichmannshof to Apoldaer Straße, through the Roter Berg residential area to Stotternheimer Straße, on to the “Erfurter Seen” entrance.
  • Route 2: From Erfurt-Südost via Urbich and Linderbach (approx. 200 m unpaved in between) to the Ringelberg . Continue to Erfurt-Nord (Bunsenstraße), then in the direction of Schwerborn (ascent, with a view of the city) to the “Erfurter Seen” access or alternatively in the direction of Stotternheimer Straße to the “Erfurter Seen” access.
  • A driveway from Nöda is still under construction , which will then provide a connection to the Unstrut cycle path .

reception

The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development sees the equal partnership between the city of Erfurt and two small municipalities as an innovative example that is worth emulating, as it shows “that such different partners can benefit from each other with the same interests”.

In the state competition "Bicycle-friendly Thuringia 2004" of the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs, the working group took third place out of 37 participants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erfurter Seen ( Memento from December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 2, 2010; updated version under Die Kommunale Arbeitsgemeinschaft (KAG). In: erfurter-seen.de, accessed on January 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b National Cycling Plan of the BMVBS , accessed on October 2, 2010.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  E