Editing Lusatia (section)

===Lusatian Lake District===
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The Lusatian Lake District (German: '''Lausitzer Seenland''', Lower Sorbian: '''Łužyska jazorina''', Upper Sorbian: '''Łužiska jězorina''') is an artificially created lake area. By the end of the 2020s, Europe's largest artificial water landscape and Germany's fourth-largest lake area are to be created by flooding disused brown coal mines in the Lusatian brown coal mining area. Some of the largest lakes are connected to each other as a chain of lakes by navigable canals.

The new lakeland is largely created from remaining holes from former brown coal opencast mines. These are flooded and converted into lakes. Some of the resulting lakes have already reached their final water level, others will not be completely flooded for a few years.

Other lakes are artificially dammed lakes. While the [[Quitzdorf Dam]] was created to provide enough process water for the [[Boxberg Power Station]], the [[Spremberg Dam]] was primarily planned for flood protection in the lake district, but was also used for process water for power plants. The [[Bautzen Reservoir]] was also artificially created in order to be able to continuously supply the Boxberg Power Station with water.

The ponds of the [[Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape]] Biosphere Reserve, which are also located in the Lake District area, were partly created in the Middle Ages, but also during the GDR period for agricultural reasons, as the moor-rich land was restructured and made usable. These very shallow waters are mostly used for fish farming.

The ponds of the Muskau Arch are also located between the large opencast mining holes. They arose from faults in the terminal moraine of glaciers from the Ice Age, and partly through the mining of soil raw materials such as sand, clay and coal even before industrialization. In general, these ponds are not created intentionally by humans, but are filled with water due to a lack of drainage.
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Elsterheide Geierswalde Aerial Pan.jpg|Geierswalder See (Lejnjanski jězor)
Groß Düben Halbendorfer See Aerial.jpg|[[Halbendorfer See]] (Brězowski jězor)
File:Sornoer Kanal.jpg|Sornoer Kanal (Žarnowski kanal) linking Geierswalder See to Sedlitzer See (Sedlišćański jazor)
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