Half mile lake
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Half mile lake
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 The half-mile lake from the southwest |
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| location | Volkach - Rimbach , Lower Franconia , Bavaria , Germany | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 51 ' N , 10 ° 15' E | |
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The Halbmeilensee (also half mile lake , half mile lake ) is a natural monument in the area of the Volkach district of Rimbach in Bavaria . The lake has long been part of the extensive Allmendelandes communities Dimbach , Eichfeld , Rimbach and Volkach.
Geographical location
The Halbmeilensee is located in the extreme south-west of the Rimbach municipality. In the north today the state road St 2260 leads past the lake at some distance. It separates the Halbmeilensee from the Rotenbachsee further northeast. The district of Eichfeld begins in the west, and the Hut forest department is closest to the lake. The lake is fed by the Rotenbach and the Halbmeilenbach , both of which flow into the Sommerach in the southwest . The Mainfranken barracks are located immediately to the west of the lake .
history
The Halbmeilensee is probably a natural body of water. It already existed in prehistory and the area was settled early. In the north-west of the lake, for example, some finds were excavated that indicate this human settlement. The peasants of the Neolithic culture of ribbon ceramics used an amphibolite plow wedge excavated near the lake.
In the Middle Ages , an old military road probably ran along the lake . Another path came from Sommerach and ran along the west of the lake towards Eichfeld. In the immediate vicinity of the lake there was the village of Ulberg until the early modern times , which is now desolate. However, the Halbmeilensee was not part of the Ulberg district, but was initially in the Großmark Volkach. However, the legendary Oeleburg was located on the lake. The half mile parcel presented itself as a forest area in the 6th and 7th centuries, only around the lake there were clearing islands.
During the Middle Ages, the place was also a common place for animals from the surrounding villages. The lake and its surroundings were not part of a district. This is evidenced by disputes between the villages of Volkach , Dimbach , Rimbach , Eichfeld and Strehlhof about the exact delimitation of these commons. First an arbitration decision by the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Konrad III. von Bibra in 1540 settled the dispute. The lake and the corridor remained common land.
The nearby village of Ulberg was abandoned by the middle of the 17th century and the district of the village fell to the city of Volkach. Throughout the early modern period, Volkach tried again to incorporate the Allmendesee into its area, but failed. However, the lake was now part of the Hochstiftisches Amt Volkach . The Halbmeilensee probably became part of Eichfeld at the beginning of the 19th century.
On October 21, 1824, the communities of Eichfeld and Volkach entered into a compromise. The lake was now part of the town of Volkach. In 1825, however, the nearby Wiesentheid rulership lodged a protest against this decision. On August 23, 1861, the municipality of Rimbach received the lake and the half mile parcel. With the construction of the Mainfranken barracks in the mid-1980s, practice areas and an ammunition depot were created in the vicinity of the lake. In 2015 a toad tunnel was built under the state road St 2260 between the Halbmeilensee and the Rotenbachsee.
Flora and fauna
In the Halbmeilensee, which is located in the Keuper area around the Main, many plants have been identified that are typical of the shallow, standing waters in Mainfranken. The so-called calamus (Acorus calamus) on the bank edge is characteristic. In the waterfront area there are also individuals of the species shore wolfstrapp (Lycopus europaeus), water swaths (Glyceria maxima), swamp iris (Iris pseudacorus), knotty hedgehog (Sparganium erectum).
The common arrowhead (Sagittaria sagittifolia) can be found in the shallow water , while grasses of the genus Poa and the winged figwort (Scrophularia umbrosa) grow around the lake . The plants are accompanied by the common purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), the frog bite (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae), the rough horn leaf (Ceratophyllum demersum), the yellow pond rose (Nuphar lutea), the small duckweed (Lemna minor) and the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara) of the genuine bindweed (Calystagia sepium) and the Ross mint (Mentha longifolia).
The lake has a length of almost one kilometer. Even in the 19th century, the Halbmeilensee had a rich fish population. The so-called little grebes (Tachybaptus ruficollis) that breed around the lake are typical today . Many amphibians inhabit the lake. The many common toads (Bufo bufo) made a toad tunnel under the nearby state road necessary. Common frogs (Rana temporaria), pond newts (Lissotriton vulgaris), green frogs (Pelophylax "esculentus"), tree frogs and garlic toads (Pelobates fuscus) are less common .
literature
- Gerhard Egert: City and Parish Volkach am Main (A contribution to the city history of Franconia). Part I. The urban territory from the beginnings to the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803 . Volkach and Würzburg 1964.
- Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Egert, Gerhard: City and parish Volkach am Main . P. 22.
- ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig (among others): Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald . P. 198.
- ^ Egert, Gerhard: City and parish Volkach am Main . P. 78.
- ↑ BBGEV.de: Aquatic and marsh plant communities of the various types of water in the Schweinfurt area (eastern Maindreieck) , PDF file, accessed on February 1, 2018.
- ^ Helmut Bandorf: The occurrence of the sea and rag divers in Lower Franconia. 1960, PDF on ZOBODAT
- ↑ Main-Post: Tunnel save population of toads , accessed on February 1, 2018.