page_title: Munich gravel plain
section_title: Economic significance
hierarchical_section_title: Munich gravel plain / Economic significance
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Badende am Langwieder See
context_page_description: The Munich gravel plain is an Outwash plain in Upper Bavaria, Germany, formed during Late Pleistocene glacial periods. Characterized by its very wide extension, it comprises sandur terraces and the floodplain of the Isar river. These most recent deposits overlie the Neogene Molasse basin of the Alpine Foreland, which in contrast comprises fine-grained fluviatile and lacustrine facies.
context_section_description: The surface gravel and sand deposits have been exploited for use in construction for a long time. There still remain several sand and gravel plants as in Grasbrunn and at Aschheim. At the site of the modern Heimstettener See (Heimstetten Lake), gravel was mined for the Reichsbahn until 1937. The Feringasee (Feringa Lake) gravel was used for the construction of the  Autobahn A 99 from 1974 to 1976, the Böhmerweiher (Böhmerweiher Lake) was created between 1993 and 1999 by sand and gravel mining for the construction of the Autobahn A 8.
  Former gravel pits are also all the lakes of the Dreiseenplatte (Three Lake district), that include the Lerchenauer See, Fasanerie See and Feldmochinger See and the three lakes of the Langwieder lake district to the west of Munich. The Langwieder lake district includes the Langwieder See, which provided gravel for the construction of the Autobahn A 8 during the 1930s, the Birkensee, from which gravel was extracted for a railway line in 1938, and the Lußsee, from which gravel was used from 1995 to 2000 for the construction of the Eschenrieder Spange, a shortcut at a junction of the Autobahn A 99. Most of the defunct sand and gravel pits have undergone years of extensive recultivation and have since become popular recreation sites for the inhabitants of metropolitan Munich.
caption: Langwieder Lake in 2012
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