Kalbesee

Last summer, the Kalbesee lake above our house still had a very low water level. But the last 10 months have brought us so much rain that the lake is now almost full to the brim. That’s nice, but at the same time problematic for us. This is because the lake was created by open-cast mining and has no overflow and the higher the water pressure, the more water is pushed through the mountain rock to our house and the Keudelbrunnen. As a result, the slope behind our house, which hadn’t moved for a few years, started to move again and over the winter the slope crept 3cm closer to the house. This is not good for the already badly damaged kitchen extension. We can only hope that we will soon come to a negotiated solution with the Hessian Ministry of Transport, who want to build a slope stabilisation for the road behind our house. However, we still don’t feel that our interests have been sufficiently taken into account in their construction plans :-/