Landgraben (Samland)
The Landgraben in Samland served the water supply of Königsberg.
location
The ditch in Samland is 17.3 km long. It flows from Kotelnikowo (Kaliningrad) (Wargen) to Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg). It was first mentioned in 1384. The watermill in Mühlfeld , which often took the water from the Königsberg mills, dates from the time of the Teutonic Order . From the northernmost beginning of the ditch in the Elchdorf road pond , the water needs three days to get to Hardershof due to the slight gradient . It initially feeds the mushroom pond, which flows into the Mühlfelder pond. With a 4 m gradient it flows to the Wargener pond and from there over the Trankwitzer pond to the Philippsteich. The forest in between - the rest of the "Great Wilkie", the wolf forest - was cleared during the First World War . The Landgraben flows from the Philippsteich to the Fürstenteich and since 1894 has continued underground to the Hardershof waterworks.
Already in Duke Albrecht's time, the streams that fed the Wiekau pond , which the city created in 1884 , were used by a mill. The water was directed to the Mühlfeld pond. In 1907, the Quanditter Fliess north of the Samland Railway was dammed several times, so that this reservoir also served the water supply of Königsberg.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city lexicon , 2nd edition. Munich 1976.