Lake of Ledinci, artificial lake in Stari Ledinci, Fruška Gora, Serbia
Lake of Ledinci is a reservoir near Novi Sad, roughly 100 meters wide and 400 meters long with a narrow, elongated shape. The water is fed by groundwater and small streams, reaching depths of about 50 meters at its deepest point, surrounded by steep banks and thick forest.
The lake formed in 1999, when pumps in the abandoned Srebro trachyte quarry were damaged during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and stopped pumping out water; groundwater and the Lukin Svetac and Srebrni potok creeks filled the pit. Exploitation rights were disputed by the Stari Ledinci community, the City of Novi Sad, the mining company Alas of Rakovac and the Fruška Gora national park administration. After a June 2006 rockfall injured swimmers, access was banned and the lake was emptied in summer 2009; Alas then resumed quarrying, with water to be pumped back after 8 to 10 years.
The lake's name Srebro ("silver") comes from the abandoned quarry in which it formed. In 2003 Zdravko Čolić filmed the video for his song "Ao, nono bijela" there, and scenes from We Are Not Angels 3 (2006) and Charleston for Ognjenka (2008) were shot at the water. The Serbian Orthodox Church also held mass baptisms in the lake.
Public access was banned after a June 2006 rockfall from the cliffs injured several swimmers, and the quarry operator Alas resumed work after the lake was emptied in July 2009. The site is therefore a working quarry rather than a lake, and the company has said water would be pumped back only after its permit expires in 8 to 10 years.
In 2003 Zdravko Čolić filmed the video for his song "Ao, nono bijela" at the lake. Scenes from Pad u raj (2004), Mi nismo anđeli 3: Roknrol uzvraća udarac (2006) and Čarlston za Ognjenku (2008) were also shot there, and the Serbian Orthodox Church held mass baptisms in its water.
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