Werbeliner See

Tagebaurestsee and bird sanctuary

The Werbelin lake is an approximately 450 -acre Tagebaurestsee, which was created by flooding from the former mining Delitzsch- southwest. The lake is located in the Saxon Lakeland, south of the town of Delitzsch and north of Leipzig.

Location

The Werbelin lake located in the northwest of the Free State of Saxony, at an altitude of about 78 m above sea level. NN. It lies between the cities of Leipzig and Delitzsch, west of the B 184 West of Werbelin lake is the Zwochauer lake, south Schladitzer the bay. The body of water located in the Saxon Lake District and is part of the northern Leipzig Neuseenlands.

History

In 1980, the lignite mining here. This required (formerly Rundling ) soft places Kattersnaundorf, grave contactor and Werbelin. At the former location of the villages there is a memorial stone. The coal was transported on a specially built railway line to Bitterfeld and from there to the energy and chemical industries. He emerged from the former mining Delitzsch- West and was flooded 1998-2010 from the New billet. In March 2004, he was filled according to the LMBV to 87 %. The site is revegetated.

Use

Hiking and biking trails are created, which are also used on inline skates and extend to the nearby lake and Zwochauer grave guards lake and for about 2 kilometers away Schladitzer lake. The 120- km long cycle path from Lutherstadt Wittenberg to Markham " coal - vapor light " leads past the lake.

Furthermore, there is a nature trail with signs. Since 2006, the lake is considered a bird sanctuary. In February 2007, they built the overflow channel ( Brodauer SPD ), which flows into the creek Lober between Zschortau and Brodau.