From a Mining Area to a Lake District

With Leipzig New Lakeland in the northwest of the Freestate of Saxony one of the most beautiful lake districts in Germany...

Facts about opencast-mining landscape

Only 15 years ago 20 open-cast coalmines produced about 150 million tons of lignite which were refined in numerous powerstations...

Enjoy both sports and nature

The ever changing landscape of Leipzig New Lakeland with its many contrasts widely attracts walkers, cyclists, horseriders and inlineskaters...

Just relaxing

It is not always the holiday in distant countries - for a short break in between Leipzig New Lakeland is definitely the right place...

Play, fun and action for the whole family

Here you find leisure entertainment for the whole family. Even when the weather is not right for bathing you will not get bored...

Active on and under water

One of Europe's largest "landscape construction sites" is going to develop into a watersports idyll with close connection to Leipzig...

Explore the exciting nature

Over decades large parts of the exhausted coalmines were left to natural succession which consequently created a variety of wet and dry biotopes...

Lively cultural history

Although historical places in Leipzig New Lakeland have been devastated there is still a remarkable density of historico-cultural witnesses in the region...

Leipzig New Lakeland is growing steadily

Almost no other tourist region shows a comparable building and planning activity...

The culture and fair town Leipzig

Leipzig has many faces. In particular the historical town centre with the sights lying closely together like the Thomaskirche, Nikolaikirche, Hauptbahnhof (main railway station)...