The best traffic-free bike rides in Vereinigte Mulde Eilenburg - Bad Düben

The church in Gruna is the center of the village, right on the village square, flanked by the fire station and the community center.

Definitely worth seeing

Definitely worth seeing

Definitely worth seeing

After 1945, the Grunaer Church was left unused for services and exposed to weathering and destruction. The flood of the century in 2002 had ultimately also severely damaged the house of worship internally. During the renovation work in the church, precious gravestones (epitaphs) made of Italian marble and other valuable stones from the time of the von Spiegel family were found. They lay with the valuable, carved side facing down in the floor and had not been recognized as such until then. In 2005, fourteen epitaphs, after extensive reconstruction, were placed around the inner surrounding walls and are now visible to everyone. 6 years after the flood, the Grunaer Church could be returned to its original use in 2008 after extensive repair and renovation. Source https://laussig.com/index.php/kirchen/kirche-gruna

The Wendenturm, which only received this name in the 19th century, is the keep of a 14th-century moated castle. In plan, it represents a rectangle with a base area of 8 x 9.5 m and walls 2 m thick. In addition, the tower with a hipped roof is approx. 30 m high. Together with the modern manor house, it stands on an earth mound - the remains of a Slavic motte-and-bailey castle. The mound has a diameter of approx. 50 m. It is surrounded on the NE, SE, and SW sides by an approx. 30 m wide, once water-filled moat, which has a depth of approx. 2.5 to 3 m. Source https://www.burgenwelt.org/deutschland/wendenturm/object.php

The Mulde flows exclusively in the North German Plain, initially through the Saxon Uplands, and passes Grimma, Nerchau, and Trebsen. Approximately near Wurzen, on the western edge of which it flows, the Mulde reaches the Elbe-Mulde Lowland. It then flows through Eilenburg and Bad Düben and shortly thereafter leaves Saxon territory. The remaining course to its mouth is covered by the Mulde in Saxony-Anhalt. Further downstream, until 1975, the Mulde flowed west of the two places Pouch and Friedersdorf in the area of today's Goitzschesee. Since then, it has been dammed up east of the two places in the Muldestausee – a former open-cast mine. Subsequently, the Mulde flows past Muldenstein, Jeßnitz, Raguhn, and Dessau and flows into the Elbe between Dessau and Roßlau after 147 km.[2] The revitalization project "Wilde Mulde" for the lower course in Dessau was recognized in November 2018 as an official project of the UN Decade of Biodiversity.[11][12] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulde_(Fluss)#Hochwasser

Although the confluence of the two source rivers takes place at approximately half the total length of the Mulde, the Freiberger Mulde and Zwickauer Mulde already contribute over 80% of the total water volume. This is due to the shape of the catchment area, which is very wide in the Ore Mountains and narrows towards the Elbe, and also to the higher precipitation in the mountains and simultaneously higher proportion of runoff water. The shape of the catchment areas also means that the longer Zwickauer Mulde is the smaller of the two source rivers at the confluence. The hydrologically strongly dominating main branch of the Freiberger Mulde river system is the Zschopau. In its upper catchment area, it is again a named tributary, the Flöha, that contributes the larger water flow and is thus the actual source river of the Mulde. Along this main flow path, the Mulde is approximately 267 kilometers long, and along the longest flow path (Zwickauer Mulde) a good 314 kilometers.[3] The Mulde catchment area shows total drops of 600 to 900 meters for many important flow paths, so that exceptionally high flow velocities prevail here for Northern Germany. The Mulde is sometimes even referred to as the fastest flowing river in Central Europe.[10] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulde_(Fluss)#Hochwasser