Großer Auesee

The Great Auensee in the East Westphalian city Espelkamp in North Rhine-Westphalia is located west of the main town in the floodplain of the river Große Aue. This and the north of this lake in the clay hills have been created for the purpose of recreation and are country sides of river dikes.

Able development and use

The Great Auesee is a semi-natural habitat that has been created artificially in the period 1979 to 1981. This form, together with its surroundings, the same nature reserve. Its water comes in part from the Great Lawns, partially from an urban storm sewer and partly from groundwater. It is 550 m long and 80 m wide on average. In the northern Seewinkel located approximately 15 meters from the shore a 50 m² comprehensive islet on which a single tree stands. On the western shore of the lake is ( directly at the bridge over the Große Aue ) a vantage point for observing the fauna of the lake. The depth of the Auesee Lake is indeed typical of a lowland lake is small, but still larger than that of the much larger natural lake Dumber 20 km northwest.

Other lakes

400 m downstream of the river begins at the left of the lake at Klei Hill, a fed exclusively by groundwater lake.

A third, somewhat smaller lake right of the river just before the L 770 was not prepared for recreation. This lake driving break was created as ecological compensation measure in the construction of the road.

One kilometer west of it lies north of the L 770 baumumstandene a former clay pit with a water surface area of about 4 hectares.

In the far south, close to the southern shore of the Great Auesee Lake there is another, around 0.8 acres of nameless lake, which is included as the only one in the running waters. This is the baggy extended mouth of the Fabbenstedter trench in the Große Aue opens. In the German base map of this lake is simply named as " pond ".

East and west of the lakes extend two together grove of 2.5 km ².

Trivia

Although the Kleihügelsee is the largest and the only lake in the old district Luebbecke, neither he nor the Great Auesee the largest lakes of the area: On the peat bog, the central unnamed Moorsee a coherent total water area of ​​9 hectares.