Werbener See
| Werbener See | ||
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| The Werbener See | ||
| Geographical location | Saxony | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '40 " N , 12 ° 14' 8" E | |
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| surface | 79 ha | |
| length | 800 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
The Werbener See is a lake about 20 kilometers southwest of Leipzig that was created as part of the recultivation of the overburden area of a lignite opencast mine on the southern edge of the municipality of Kitzen .
It is an intermediate residual hole in the Profen-Nord opencast mining area and named after the Werben district of Kitzen, on the eastern edge of which it is located. It has a size of 79 hectares and extends oblong in an east-west direction with a length of approx. 800 and a width of approx. 100 m.
From 1998 to 2000 it was flooded with swamp water from the Profen opencast mine and then left to be filled with groundwater . In May 2012 the water level was 124.27 m above sea level. NHN. The final water level at the end of the flooding is 127.80 m above sea level. Above sea level, but can only be reached very slowly due to the withdrawal of groundwater by the neighboring active open-cast mine Profen.
The lake has a volume of approximately 9.3 million cubic meters with an average depth of 12 meters and a maximum depth of 32 meters.
The diving club Borna eV has leased the lake as diving water. It also serves as a fishing area for anglers.
The Werben open-cast mine is owned by Agrarprodukte Kitzen eG, which has also drawn up certain rules of conduct for staying on this site.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flooding in the southern area of Leipzig ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Neuseenland - short profile Werbener See ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 363 kB)
