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Swimming Area at Speicherbecken Witznitz

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Swimming Area at Speicherbecken Witznitz

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    December 24, 2021

    The Witznitz reservoir is located near Borna in Saxony. The storage facility was put into operation in 1954 as the first larger dam in a residual open pit. It was created in the hollow form of the Witznitz I opencast mine, which was closed in 1945. In the following decades, the storage facility, to which the Espenhain lignite refining plant and the Tierbach power plant were connected until it was closed, developed into the core cell of the process water supply in the southern Leipzig area. Today the new Lippendorf power plant is supplied from here.

    To increase the water supply, a water transfer has been in operation since 1961 from the Sermuth pumping station at the confluence of the Zwickauer and Freiberger Mulde rivers, with which up to 2 m³ / s can be supplied. The striking yellow brick building of the former Witznitz briquette factory cannot be overlooked as a landmark east of the reservoir.

    Source: leipziger-neuseenland.org/speicherbecken-witznitz

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      December 26, 2021

      The reservoir has a few shallow shores from which you can easily go into the water.

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        September 4, 2024

        Very worth seeing, you have to see it

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          Location: Borna, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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