Pastritz Canal
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Pastritz Canal Teplobystřický kanál |
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| Water code | CZ : 1-10-02-045 | |
| location | Upper Palatinate Forest , Czech Republic | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Zubřina → Radbuza → Berounka → Vltava → Elbe → North Sea | |
| Beginning | Derived from the Warm Pastritz at Čerchov 49 ° 26 ′ 7 ″ N , 12 ° 47 ′ 59 ″ E |
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| Source height | 920 m | |
| The End | Muzzle into the Zubřina near Valcha Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 18 " N , 12 ° 53 ′ 5" E 49 ° 25 ′ 18 " N , 12 ° 53 ′ 5" E |
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| Mouth height | 456 m | |
| Height difference | 464 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 29 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 16 km | |
The Pastritz Canal , formerly Tauser Mühlbach (Czech Teplobystřický kanál or náhon Teplé Bystřice ) is a 16 kilometer long canal in the Czech Republic that connects the Teplá Bystřice ( Warm Pastritz ) with the Zubřina via the main European watershed . The building, built in 1571, served both to supply water to the town of Domažlice and to use water power . Today it is eight kilometers long and is considered a technical monument .
geography
The Pastritz Canal on the eastern slope of the Čerchov holds the water in the headwaters of the Teplá Bystřice ( Warm Pastritz ). The canal initially runs in the bed of the Teplá Bystřice to the southeast to the saddle on the Hochberg. There, at a height of 541 m nm, the canal is derived on the left from the Teplá Bystřice ⊙ and at the southern foot of the hill Na Podkově ( On the Horseshoe ; 588 m nm) past the European main watershed between the Danube and the Elbe to the east. North of the Rašín stone ( Rašínův kámen ) the canal flows into the Bystřice ( Pastritz ). West of the Sedlácko (630 m nm) the Pastritz Canal is derived on the right side from the Bystřice and at a distance of approx. 150–200 m parallel to the creek in a northerly direction through its valley. Next to the Plzeň – Furth railway line in the forest , the canal flows behind the Čertův kámen ( Devil's Stone ) to Babylon , where it is passed under the railway eleven times. Past the Babylon stop and the Hotel Praha, the canal runs east of the Babylonský rybník, Černý rybník and Hadrovec ponds through the woods on the slopes of Okrouhlík and Na Hlavě (533 m). East of the Gleisdreieck the canal ran on a wooden aqueduct at Hadrovec over the railway line Plzeň – Furth in the forest to Na Pile until 1984 , where it crosses a small stream on the state road I / 26 between Horšovský Týn and Furth in the forest and then afterwards Valcha leads. There the Pastritz Canal joins the Zubřina after eight kilometers. Originally, the canal ran on the left side of the Zubřina via Na Cihelně, Havlovice and the Upper Suburb ( Hořejší Předměstí ) to Domažlice, where it first flowed into the city ditches and then into the Zubřina.
history
The Tauser Mühlbach or Tauser Mühlgraben was created in 1571 with the permission of Emperor Maximilian II to supply the town of Taus with drinking and extinguishing water. Its water was also used to fill the city's protective trenches. At the same time, the ditch near Hawlowitz and Taus was used to drive several mills and to supply water to a tannery, a dye works, a glass grinding shop, the municipal fulling mill and a sawmill. The approximately one meter wide trench was led using the terrain level with a very low gradient.
The construction of the Pilsen – Furth im Wald railway line , which was built in 1860 between Böhmisch Kubitzen and Hadrovec on the same slope as the ditch through the Pastritztal, made numerous adjustments to the ditch necessary. The trench had to be passed under the railway line a total of eleven times, seven of them in stone tunnels. A particular technical challenge was the renewed crossing with the railway line east of Hadrovec at today's junction in Pasečnice, where the railway ran below the level of the trench. The trench was transferred over the railway line to Runde ( Na Pile ) by means of a 32-meter-long wooden aqueduct, which was considered a technical masterpiece.
In the course of the 20th century, the lower section of the canal between Havlovice and Domažlice lost its importance, as the city obtained its drinking water elsewhere and also craft businesses on the canal used electrical energy instead of water power for their operation or had completely stopped their operations. As a result, the canal between Valcha and Havlovice and Domažlice was abandoned. On the section separated by this between Havlovice and the hospital in the Upper Suburb of Domažlice, it is still preserved, but is only fed by a few small streams. The introduction into the Zubřina now took place at the old fulling mill ( Valcha ).
Between 1983 and 1984, the dilapidated aqueduct was baupolizeilich locked and the channel directed parallel to the railway road to the northeast, where it in 539 m nm ⊙ opens on the hill in the Zelenov Zubřina. This also cut off the section between Na Pile and Valcha from the canal; it was preserved and is watered by a small stream. The wooden aqueduct was demolished a little later. The reconstruction of the aqueduct is currently being prepared.