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Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Altenberg

Source of the Rote Weißeritz

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Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Altenberg

Source of the Rote Weißeritz

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Source of the Rote Weißeritz

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  • Location: Altenberg, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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    March 26, 2022

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    This is where the Rote Weisseritz rises from the New Galgenteich, almost the source of this beautiful river.
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    April 18, 2022

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    Originally the Rote Weisseritz rose from the soap bog at this point. When tin mining demanded more and more water at the end of the GDR, the New Galgenteich was created there, in its headwaters, and the moor disappeared.
    (In 1990 the GDR was history, in 1991 the mining of tin was over. What remained was a half-finished reservoir ... years later it was completed; today it is used for the production of drinking and process water.)
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    View of Großer Galgenteich – Great Galgenteich loop from Kurort Altenberg (Erzgeb.)

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    Elevation 800 m

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    Location: Altenberg, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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