The Geiseltalsee was created by flooding the open-cast mine in early 2000. Where brown coal was still being mined until the 1990s, you can now cycle leisurely through the renaturalized landscape.
The Kulkwitzer See is a lake in the Saxon Lake District, which emerged from two former lignite mining areas southwest of Leipzig. From 1864 coal was mined here, first underground and from 1937 open pit.
The Raßnitzer lake originated from a residual hole of the open pit mine. Where once brown coal was mined, today is a beautiful lake, on the banks of which nature …