The lakes of the Leipziger Neuseenland

Map of 9 locations in Leipzig region, Saxony, Germany

Every one of these waters was an open-cast lignite pit first. The German register of the Leipziger Neuseenland lists each basin with its final surface area and the year flooding ended, and OpenStreetMap still tags the beds was:resource=lignite under the sand beaches and dive buoys. The dates run from 1954, when Witznitz was impounded as a reservoir while mining went on around it, to 2015 at Zwenkau, and the same register schedules pits that will not hold water until 2060.

Places in this collection

• Zwenkauer See — The largest lake in the Neuseenland at 970 hectares, formed in the Zwenkau pit and recorded in OpenStreetMap with a start date of 10 May 20…
• Speicherbecken Witznitz — The earliest water in the register, impounded in 1954 while the lignite industry around it was still expanding, and listed at 236 hectares…
• Markkleeberger See — OpenStreetMap still carries the old name under the water, Tagebau Espenhain, with the surface at 113 metres. Flooding ended in 2006 at 252…
• Kulkwitzer See — The oldest of the recreational lakes on the list: 150 hectares, in use as a water-sports and leisure centre since 1973, and open for bathin…
• Kahnsdorfer See — Of the pits flooded in 2007, this one was kept out of the leisure programme: the register gives 112 hectares and nature conservation as its…
• Haselbacher See — Flooding ended in 2002 at 335 hectares, with the register listing both water sports and bathing as the finished use. Walking and angling si…
• Harthsee — The smallest entry in the register at 65 hectares, with flooding completed in 1995 and recorded use as a bathing lake with gastronomy and a…
• Hainer See — Flooding of the Witznitz II workings ended in 2007 at 387 hectares, logged in the lake register with a water-sports and leisure centre stil…
• Cospudener See — The Cospuden lignite pit worked until 1992; flooding finished in 2000 and the register of Neuseenland lakes gives the finished water body a…

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