Hard ponds

Hard ponds
	Excerpt from the table sheet “Dresden's environment” from Meinhold's publishing company Dresden for the area around the hard ponds, around 1930
Geographical location	Dresden-Rossendorf ; Saxony ( Germany )
Drain	Kalter Bach → Schullwitzbach
	Data
Coordinates	51 ° 3 '13 " N , 13 ° 57' 34" E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '13 " N , 13 ° 57' 34" E
Altitude above sea level	263 m

The hard ponds are a group of two larger and several small ponds in the Harthe south of the Karswald near Dresden .

location

The ponds are located close to the Dresden city limits between the Rossendorf district and the municipality of Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach in a basin running from east to west in the headwaters of the "Kalten Baches" and are fed by an unnamed tributary of this body of water. There are numerous seepage and flow sources of the Kalten Bach in the vicinity. The latter flows into the Schullwitzbach . The ponds are officially listed on maps as (Großer) Harthteich I and II and Kleiner Harthteich.

history

The hard ponds were probably created as fish ponds in the 18th century by placing earth walls in the depression. Until the founding of the Central Institute for Nuclear Physics in 1956, the ponds were located in a hiking area that was much visited by Dresdeners. The largest pond with around 2.5 hectares of water was used as a bathing pond. From 1973 this was an official outdoor swimming pool, which had to close in 1984 for sanitary reasons. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, this pond was taken over by the fishing club Wesenitztal / Sebnitz e. V. leased. The contract expired in 2014.

The Rossendorf leisure complex is located on the Harthteich ponds and occasionally hosts events, including the Harthteich Festival and, since 1978, the “Jazz am Harthteich” festival.

Large hard pond; Looking north
Großer Harthteich, former outdoor swimming pool; Looking east
Großer Harthteich, former outdoor swimming pool; View to the south with the swimming pool buildings
silted up northern hard pond