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has a water level at 98 m (322 ft) above sea level. As of 2015, the lake occupied an area of 18.9 km (7 sq mi), which makes it the twelfth largest lake in
Germany. Subsequently, the open-cast mine Kayna-Süd was shut down and rehabilitated as early as 1972, resulting in the Südfeldsee with 2.6 km (1 sq mi) of water surface. The excavation work in Großkayna had already been completed in 1965 and the remaining hole was used until 1995 as a rinsing dump for waste from the Leuna and Buna plants and then flooded to a 2.1 km (1 sq mi) lake (Runstedter lake). Both of today's lakes are separated from the Geiseltalsee by a tipping dam up to 140 m (459 ft)
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Emma, and Elise II), charred mainly the western Geisel Valley, while the opencast mining Großkayna, founded 1949 (from the Grube
Rheinland) and Kayna-Süd. Founded in 1948, in the excavation operation encountered large open-pit open-cast mining in Großkayna to a depth of 130 m (427 ft) in the open-cast mining area Mücheln up to 70 m (230 ft) (natural upper edge at about 110 m (361 ft) above sea level).
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In the 1990s, the embankments of the Mücheln opencast mine were moved; around 26 million cubic meters of earth mass were flattened and support the embankment. The completion of these measures began on June 30, 2003 with the flooding of the remaining hole to the
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community has re-emerged, especially on the northern edge of the valley. In addition, the
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from 1936, is significant in this context Lützkendorf, a plant for fuel and lubrication oil production. After the Second World War, there was a further intensification of the dismantling. The Mächeln opencast mine, founded in 1949 by merging several existing abbeys (including
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mining operations caused fundamental changes in the landscape and the population: a total of 18 settlements and some 12,500 people were resettled over the time of the mining and manufacturing. Some residents of
Rossbach itself were resettled in 1963 and part of the town was destroyed by mining
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the region was characterized by mostly independent pits (Elisabeth 1906, Großkayna 1907, Beuna 1907, Cecilie 1907, Rheinland 1908, Leonhardt 1910, Pfännershall 1911). In the course of the further processing of coal, nine
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characterized by a mild average annual average temperature and a relatively low annual precipitation of about 500 mm (20 in). Because of its location, it belongs to the Middle-German dry area. Due to the sandy soil, special
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plants were built. The immense coal deposits in the Geisel Valley and its favorable transport conditions also led to the development of several chemical plants settled. BASF constructed construction of the
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