Grabschützer See nature trail

18 stations and three picturesque lakes – the Grabschützer See nature trail, which is a good seven kilometers long, is bursting with variety. Between bodies of water and grass you will explore the former opencast mining area and learn interesting facts about the history of the landscape, ecology and the flora and fauna of today's nature reserve.

Let's start at the nature trail car park near Zwochau. With a view of the pretty Lake Zwochau, you start your round through the area where nature has been allowed to develop freely again for more than two decades after the end of the opencast mining era. You pass the beautiful Werbeliner See, which is now home to numerous protected animal and plant species. In order to be able to observe them better, telescopes are available for you in some places.

Along the way you will repeatedly come across memorial stones from the villages that had to give way to open-cast mining at the time. Incidentally, one of them is Grabschütz, who gave this circular route its name. The round ends after a complete circumnavigation of the Grabschützer See back at your starting point.