Scheibe See is located in the triangle between the municipalities of Spreetal and Lohsa and the town of Hoyerswerda. The lake has a water surface of just over 2.6 square miles (6.8 km²), which equates to almost 1,000 football fields. Flooding was completed in late 2011. Scheibe See results from the Scheibe opencast mine, where about 53 million metric tons of coal were mined between 1984 and 1996. The coal was mainly processed in the nearby gas combine Schwarze Pumpe. The Sorbian village of Scheibe on the Kleine Spree, which was first documented in 1568, had to be demolished to make way for the pit. 23 people were resettled in 1986/1987. A boulder at the lake now commemorates the former village.

Scheibe See is developing into the new ‘bathing tub’ for the people of Hoyerswerda. The waters can be explored and circumnavigated by cyclists and inline skaters on a tarmacked circular path. Every year in August, Scheibe See provides the setting for the ‘KnappenMan’, one of the largest triathlon events in Lusatia.

In the little village of Tiegling, about 60 people live in 20 houses. The hamlet of Sorbian origin was first documented in 1746 under the name of ‘Tiegelchen’. Only one road leads through this former outlying estate of Weißkollmer: “Am Reiherhorst” (On Heron’s Eyrie). Named after the former well-known resting place of these birds between Tiegling and Weißkollm.