Bucket Lake

{{Short description|Artificial lake in Eckernförde}}

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| location = Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein

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(Upper) Bucket Lake ({{langx|de|(Oberer) Eimersee}}) is an artificial lake and restored wetland in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It has a surface elevation of 14{{Nbsp}}m, and its surface area is 1.5{{Nbsp}}ha. The lake belongs to Eckernförde.

The creation of the lake is unique: in 1990 a polythene bucket (hence the name) was used to plug a culvert that was draining a shallow former agricultural basin.{{cite web|url=http://www.eckernfoerde.de/media/custom/296_903_1.PDF?1415880651 |format=PDF |title=Management of Urban Watersheds and Re-naturalization of Derelict Lands as a Part of Holistic Ecological City Planning Effort |website=Eckernfoerde.de |accessdate=2016-12-09}} Since then, the lake has become a habitat with a huge diversity of plants and animals. This was also seen as a successful example of cheap land restoration in Japan, in South Korea{{cite web|author=Arne Peters |url=http://www.shz.de/lokales/eckernfoerder-zeitung/ein-oekologisches-vorbild-fuer-suedkorea-id1380781.html |title=Eckernförde: Ein ökologisches Vorbild für Südkorea |language=de|website=Shz.de |date=2011-05-18 |accessdate=2016-12-09}} and the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.kn-online.de/Lokales/Rendsburg-Eckernfoerde/Ostseebad-Eckernfoerde-nimmt-eine-Vorreiterrolle-als-Umweltstadt-ein |title=Ostseebad Eckernförde nimmt eine Vorreiterrolle als Umweltstadt ein – KN - Kieler Nachrichten |language=de |website=Kn-online.de |date=2014-04-22 |accessdate=2016-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229001733/http://www.kn-online.de/Lokales/Rendsburg-Eckernfoerde/Ostseebad-Eckernfoerde-nimmt-eine-Vorreiterrolle-als-Umweltstadt-ein# |archive-date=2014-12-29 |url-status=dead }}

A short documentary about the lake was shown at the Green Screen film festival,{{cite web |url=http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/GS_Programmheft2016_Web.pdf |format=PDF |title=Green Screen |website=Greenscreen-festival.de |accessdate=2016-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220171154/http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/GS_Programmheft2016_Web.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }} at the Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia{{cite web |url=http://www.matsalufilm.ee/en/2647/ |title=2647 |website=Matsalufilm.ee |date=2016 |accessdate=2016-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220140513/http://www.matsalufilm.ee/en/2647/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }} and at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival in Austria in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.inff.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/INFF-2016-Program.pdf |format=PDF |title=Innsbruck Nature Film Festival |date=2016 |website=Inff.eu |accessdate=2016-12-09}} The documentary from German filmmaker Sven Bohde is available in German, English and Japanese.{{cite web|author=Sven Bohde |url=http://www.shz.de/lokales/eckernfoerder-zeitung/der-eimersee-wird-zum-festivalstar-id15526211.html |title=Der Eimersee wird zum Festivalstar |language=de|website=Shz.de |date=2016-12-06 |accessdate=2016-12-09}}