Cultivation (cavity)
A cultivation , also breeding (from aizucht ) is an artificially created subterranean cavity that serves to drain water.
In some medieval cities, the landowner's duty to keep his sewage away from neighbors resulted in ramified cultivation systems which, in addition to surface water, also drain sewage and seepage water from the buildings and flow into natural watercourses.
For example, in the Saxon town of Freiberg at depths of up to 7 m below land, buildings and streets, the cultivars still serve this purpose today. The wastewater is no longer discharged into the cultivations, but into the local sewer system.
In rural areas, too, especially in mountainous areas such as the Jizera Mountains and the Giant Mountains , smaller breeding systems emerged, which served to protect the villages from strong water influx during thaws or rainfall, or to prevent the swamping and acidification of meadows and pastures.
literature
- René Kaiser: The Freiberg cultivars . in: Bergbau Zeitschrift für Rohstoffgewinnung, Energie, Umwelt 64 (2013) 9, pp. 405–408 ( digitized version )
- Dieter Mucke: Roses, rafts and cultivations - historical water supply and sewage drainage in Freiberg . In: Monuments in Saxony . Vol. 2, 2003. pp. 473-484. ISBN 3-936784-01-9