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Gießen District

Sachsensee (Barbarasee)

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Gießen District

Sachsensee (Barbarasee)

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Sachsensee (Barbarasee)

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Location: Hungen, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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1. View of Münzenberg Castle – View of Münzenberg Castle loop from Butzbach

51.7km

03:10

320m

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2. Wölfersheimer Lake – Oberer Knappensee loop from Friedberg Süd

57.0km

03:25

280m

Expert bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route.

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3. View of Münzenberg Castle – Münzenberg Castle Ruins loop from Dorheim (Wetterau)

55.0km

03:22

310m

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Simone & Michael🙋🏻🙋‍♂️

June 27, 2023

The Dingesee is the remote lake in the Wetterau Lake District and is therefore not so well known and “besieged”…
There are two parking spaces on the side facing the main street - Trais Horloff / Bellersheim.
The lake cannot be circumnavigated by bike, but it is ideal for hiking...

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Wolfram/Ts. 🇺🇦

January 16, 2020

Nice viewpoint on the lake!
With the development of the opencast mine between Wohnbach and Bellersheim, large bucket-wheel and bucket-chain excavators found their way into the northern Wetterau. From 1961 to 1975, 10.5 million tons of lignite were mined between the A45 motorway and the Hungen district of Bellersheim. What was left of this was the Barbarasee in the east of the Hungen district of Bellersheim, which is officially known as "Sachsensee". The name "Barbarasee" comes from the patron saint of miners - the "Saint Barbara" - and has become naturalized in the population.
Source: alexanderhitz.de/geschichte_braunkohle_tagebau_sachsensee.html

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Pat

February 13, 2022

Old coal mining area which was abandoned when yield ran out. At that time with its own railway connection. Similar to Lake Wölfersheim, the area was converted into a lake after mining.

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Location: Hungen, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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1. View of Münzenberg Castle – View of Münzenberg Castle loop from Butzbach

2. Wölfersheimer Lake – Oberer Knappensee loop from Friedberg Süd

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