Attractions and Places To See around Speicherbecken Borna - Top 3

Unfortunately, the path grows more and more, so that in some places there is almost no getting through. Be careful with wide handlebars.

Super trails around the lake promise pure driving pleasure! Our absolute recommendation!

If you leave the embankment and cross the dam you follow a small trail and cross the tide bed over a small bridge. Then another seemingly impassable path and you get exactly on the S50 - branch Lobstädt.

The Borna reservoir was produced in the mining cavity of the Borna mine, closed down in 1970, as the centerpiece of a reservoir system for service water supply and flood protection in the Pleiße catchment area, and went into operation in 1977. With a volume of 49.4 million m³, it is still the second largest dam in the Free State of Saxony, whose image is characterized by extensive dam construction poured out of tilting material from the then active opencast mines on the north and west banks. The plant lies in the shunt of Pleiße and is operated in conjunction with the directly south adjacent retention basin Regis-Serbitz. At the flood in June 2013, almost 50 million m³ of water were retained here. Even if the still water is still to be regarded today as being designed as a technical purpose building, natural refuges developed over time, especially in the southern part with the striking torrent and in the area of ​​the embankment bordering the eastern shore. Recreation seekers soon discovered the qualities of the lake, which is considered an insider tip, especially for surfers, even if due to its primary function as a water management system, changing water levels and quality ratios can be expected at any time. The connection from Regis-Breitingen to the B 93, inaugurated in 2008, today crosses the southern area of ​​the reservoir, which is dry with normal water. As a result of stability tests 2009/2010, it is not possible to rule out a breakthrough and subsidence fly hazard for tilted subareas under appropriate boundary conditions. Therefore, in May 2010 precautionary barricades had to be carried out. Since then, a general decree of the Saxonian Oberbergamt regulates restraint and traffic restrictions, differentiated according to danger zones. Area: 265 ha (with a maximum of 570 ha) Volume: 105 million m³ (usable storage 49.4 million m³, of which 46.5 million m³ flood protection space) Depth (middle / maximum): 25/38 m (depending on the height) Length (shoreline): 5.5 km at normal water level, 11 km at Höchststau from: http://www.investoren-neuseenland.de/leipziger-neuseenland/see/speicher-borna-adria.html

The reservoir Borna is one of the largest reservoirs in Saxony and is fed by the Pleiße. At the southern part of the lake comes on at the outlet. The final water level is +139.50 m NHN (at maximum damming +150.0 m NHN).

The reservoir is a relatively young open-pit water with approximately 300 ha of water. Since being filled with Pleißenwasser in 1979, rainbow trout are produced here in nets. In the open water was built up by extensive Besatzmaßnahmen, with the most diverse fish species a good fish stock and is actively accepted by the anglers. Especially the small whitefish has developed splendidly in recent years and can now be offered as a delicacy. Opening hours: Thursday and Friday 10:00 - 17:00 Saturday 09:00 - 12:00  Sale of freshwater fish such as: carp, trout, salmon trout, perch, tench, pike, zander, eel, sturgeon, vendace, vendace and catfish. In our own smokehouse you get at our opening hours fresh smoked fish such as: carp, trout, salmon trout, perch, tench, pike, zander, eel, sturgeon small whitefish, large whitefish & catfish. from: http://fischereibetrieb-etzold.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=60

At the storage basin Borna one encounters here the trout farm and various equipment of the fishing enterprise Etzold. Fresh fish and smoked reals just over the dam on the S50. Views over the fence are allowed, everything else is punishable (that's the way it is written).