Kulkwitzer See
lake in Markranstädt, Saxony, Germany
The Kulkwitzer See (Lake Kulkwitz), colloquially called Kulki, is a lake in the western part of Saxony, Germany. The lake is a part of the Central German Lake District.
Kulkwitzer See emerged from two former lignite opencast mining areas southwest of Leipzig. Coal was mined here from 1864, first underground and from 1937 in opencast mining. The two remaining opencast mines were flooded from 1963 and opened in 1973 as a local recreation area.
Location
The lake is located east of Markranstädt, north of the former village of Göhrenz, 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into Markranstädt, south of the former village of Miltitz, 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into Leipzig, and west of Grünau and Lausen, both parts of Leipzig. It is named after the former village of Kulkwitz, which became a neighborhood of Markranstädt in 1999.
Tourist facilities
There are substantial tourist facilities: several bathing beaches - on the western shore also one suitable for the disabled, a circular hiking trail, a ship restaurant, the restaurant Rotes Haus (in English: Red House, formerly the control center of the opencast mine) and other restaurants and snack bars, a camping site, a sauna, a high ropes course, a sledding hill, diving, sailing, boating and surfing opportunities. In 2018, the cycle path around the lake was handed over.
Together with bathers, anglers and surfers, around 500,000 visitors visit Lake Kulkwitz every year.
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