The best MTB trails around Muldestausee

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Ferropolis (Greek-Latin ferro and polis "iron city") is an industrial museum and event venue in Gräfenhainichen, east of Dessau-Roßlau, on a peninsula in Lake Gremmin, the former Golpa-Nord open-cast mine.[1][2] Ferropolis is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). Originally, the workshops, power supply, and social facilities of the Golpa-Nord open-cast mine, part of the Bitterfeld mining district, were located here. Until 1955, a mine railway line connected Bergwitz with the Zschornewitz power station. Parts of the abandoned railway embankment were later used as an access road for the Golpa-Nord lignite open-cast mine and later for the connection to Ferropolis. The mine railway and the current connecting tracks for Ferropolis were built parallel to this former railway line. After the closure of the open-cast mine in 1991, the idea of bringing together and using the large machinery remaining on the site as a museum on a remaining pillar projecting into the open-cast mine, today's peninsula, was born, based on a diploma thesis submitted to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 1992 by the architect Martin Brück.[3] In addition to the Bauhaus Foundation, the Expo 2000 Society Saxony-Anhalt GmbH and the Lusatian and Central German Mining Administration Company were involved in the design of the site, which was designated as a regional project for Expo 2000.[4][5] The official founding of the "City of Iron" was completed with the unveiling of the town sign by the then Minister of Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt, Klaus Schucht, on December 14, 1995.[6] Ferropolis opened to the public in July 2000. The opening gala concert was conducted by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis; the accompanying light show was staged by Gert Hof.[7] Bauhaus and Expo-Gesellschaft withdrew from the operating company Ferropolis GmbH at the end of 2001;[8] The current main shareholder (2019) is the city of Gräfenhainichen.[9] In 2004, extensive renovation work was carried out on the large-scale equipment. The connection to Ferropolis was renewed in 2005. In December 2005, Ferropolis was officially included in the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Since April 22, 2006, the Gräfenhainichen registry office has operated a branch office for weddings in the disused control room of the Golpa-Nord open-cast mine. Ferropolis can also be reached by museum trains from the former Zschornewitz narrow-gauge railway. An industrial museum has been established in the former Zschornewitz coal-fired power plant as a testament to coal-fired power generation. On July 6, 2013, one of five parallel concerts titled "Together Against the Flood - We Say Thank You" by the radio station MDR Jump was held in Ferropolis. The occasion was the regional impact of the 2013 floods in Central Europe.[10] Source: Wikipedia

A beautiful photo opportunity. Sometimes decorated as a candle during the Christmas season. Across the street on the shore are bars and restaurants and a playground. It's quite busy in good weather.

The staircase construction is also impressive. Don't be fooled, it's a double whammy. I only noticed it when I came down, and my head was confused for a moment. 🤣

And so, only groups go down to the operating room. It's 7.5 meters below the water level of the Mulde, explains Martin Hilgert, the plant's technical director. That seems to be the cue for Karsten, as he looks up skeptically. But his attention is already drawn to two colorfully designed giant pipes. These turbines are capable of generating around 4.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. That's enough to supply approximately 1,800 households for a year, according to Hilgert. It's not easy for him, as he has to use his voice to force the noise of the machines down here. 20 cubic meters of water flow through each turbine per second. Normally. Now, however, the power is throttled; the water level in the Mulde is low, explains the expert. "Two to three cubic meters of water are needed as a minimum for energy generation. And then it all depends on the gradient. Without that, it wouldn't work; mathematicians knew that a thousand years ago." So, during floods, nothing works. Source: https://www.mz.de/lokal/bitterfeld/kraftprotze-unter-dem-fluss-2531765

The Großer Stern is a crossroads on the edge of the Dübener Heide

The building has two corner towers on the sides, on the north side there is a basket-arched portal, in the arched field above there is an inscription dated around 1696. The portals on the courtyard side come from the previous buildings. The historical furnishings have been largely preserved. The castle complex includes a large park with several ponds.[7] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Burgkemnitz

The castle complex originated from a medieval moated castle and passed from the ownership of the von Koseritz family to Bodo von Bodenhausen in 1665. A separate Burgkemnitz family line developed and for many generations the descendants bore the first name Hans. Of particular note here is the canon of Merseburg, Hans Friedrich von Bodenhausen (1768–1837), married to Luise Countess Oberg. Then came his brother Hans Heinrich von Bodenhausen, canon of Naumburg and in a relationship with Christiane Wilhelmine Vogel. Their son and heir to the Burgkemnitz estate, Hans Konstantin von Bodenhausen (1799–1862), also married a woman from the bourgeoisie, acquired further properties,[2] including Lebusa Castle, and was appointed Prussian chamberlain. The current two-storey building with its three wings was built in 1869 under Dr. jur. District Administrator[3] Hans Bodo Freiherr von Bodenhausen (1841–1921), married to Luise von Müller.[4] During the construction in the neo-Renaissance style, some older parts were incorporated. The builder was elevated to the rank of baron in the same year with his brothers and bore several titles, lord of the majorat of Burgkemnitz, consisting of the manors of Burg- and Neu-Kemnitz, owner of other estates in Saxony-Altenburg and Saxony, royal Prussian chamberlain and legal knight of the Order of St. John. Likewise, Freiherr von Bodenhausen can be found in the German millionaire address book of his time.[5] The manor with 2080 hectares of land belonged to Burgkemnitz Castle, of which 1477 hectares were forest.[6] The last owner after the Second World War until the expropriation during the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 was the district administrator Hans Kraft Freiherr von Bodenhausen. The castle was subsequently used as a convalescent home and SED party school. Caritas acquired the site after the fall of the Berlin Wall and built several new buildings, known as the St. Lorenz residential and support facility. The castle itself is empty.[7] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Burgkemnitz