Europe’s largest man-made lake network has been officially opened. The state premiers of Brandenburg and Saxony, Dietmar Woidke (SPD) and Michael Kretschmer (CDU), inaugurated it in Neu-Seeland on Lake Sedlitz in Brandenburg. This marks the first time that Senftenberger Lake, Geierswalder Lake, Partwitzer Lake, Sedlitzer Lake, and Großräschener Lake have been connected into a single system via navigable canals.
The Lusatian and Central German Mining Administration Company (LMBV) called it a “historic milestone.” According to the LMBV, the contiguous body of water covers approximately 5,100 hectares—about half the size of Lake Müritz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
