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The fur is a tributary (part of a former side arm ) of the trough in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve and Nature Reserve Lower trough, and in Dessau- Wörlitz near the mouth of the river into the Elbe between Dessau and Roßlau.

The lake has a length of about 2.5 km and is connected via a flow ditch with the Leiner lake and the Löbben. At high tide Mulde and Elbe gets the furs also contact the Hedgehog pool, another backwater.

With 21 recorded species, such as asp, Zope, bitterling, wolf, crucian carp, bleak and Aland, the fur is considered to be species-rich backwaters of the nature reserve. The fur was in 1927, is recognized as one of the first protected areas to a mammal in Germany at all, as a beaver reserve for the Elbe beaver.

The angle which the furs at its confluence with the trough were in the 12th century, the Waldesian castle and a village of the same name.