Powder lake
| Powder lake | ||
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| Today's site access south | ||
| Geographical location | Middle Franconia | |
| Tributaries | Pegnitz | |
| Drain | Pegnitz | |
| Location close to the shore | Nuremberg | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 27 '22 " N , 11 ° 6' 37" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 300 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 0.7 ha | |
| length | 300 m | |
| width | 30 m | |
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particularities |
Reservoir, overmolded |
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The powder lake was a small reservoir in an oxbow lake of the Pegnitz in the city of Nuremberg .
geography
The 0.7 hectare lake was located south of the Wöhrder Pegnitz meadows at an altitude of 300 m above sea level. NN below Teutonenstrasse and the railway line to Nuremberg Ostbahnhof .
history
The powder lake was created around 1810 and originally powered the eponymous powder mill in Tullnau . Additional processing and storage facilities were located on the flood-proof, 10-meter-elevated southern site. In the course of industrialization and electrification of Nuremberg around 1900, the outdated mill was abandoned and demolished. In the following years, the powder lake was rededicated as a natural swimming pool from 1907. The swimming pool had a bathing establishment, which was often used for water polo games, a spectator terrace, a diving platform and sunbathing areas.
The air raids on Nuremberg in World War II transformed the area into an inhospitable crater and mud desert. Old photographs of it are in the Nuremberg City Archives and in private collections. It was used as a bathing facility until 1968.
In October 1959, the Nuremberg city council decided to build a larger inner-city lake. The construction measures mainly served to clear the Nuremberg old town from flooding . The construction of the Wöhrder See finally began in 1968. The powder lake was drained and backfilled, which completely disappeared after the Wöhrder See was created. Only the historic railway bridge on the Nuremberg - Schirnding railway line , which spanned its eastern bank, has survived. This is protected as a monument with no. (D-5-64-000-2832). The entire area is also subject to landscape protection under No. LSG-00536.06 .
The street name "Am Pulversee" still exists in Nuremberg today. Today there is the so-called Pulverseebad , the swimming pool of the Schwimmerbund Bayern 07, one of the oldest swimming clubs in Nuremberg.
Trivia
The Pulversee swimming pool is the literary backdrop for the crime novel Massa Confusa and Der Tote am Pulversee by Roland Geisler and Sina Vogt , which appeared in 2014 in the “Dadord-Frangn” crime series and is now in its fourth edition.
Web links
- Powder lake ; Information at nuernberginfos.de
- Press report from 1967 with photos of the construction work
- Press report 1968 with photo of the powder lake around 1965
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c powder lake ; Information at nuernberginfos.de. Retrieved June 13, 2015
- ↑ a b powder lake ; Information about the Wöhrder See water world . Retrieved June 13, 2015
- ↑ Pulversee on Bavaria Atlas Classic
- ^ Wöhrder See landscape protection area
- ↑ Am Pulversee excerpt from the street directory of the city of Nuremberg 2014. Accessed on June 13, 2015
- ↑ Schwimmerbund Bayern 07 eV Official website. Retrieved June 13, 2015
- ^ "Vom Fach": Fränkischer Zollfahnder makes his debut as a crime writer in: Der Bote from March 9, 2014. Accessed on June 13, 2015
- ^ First-hand detective novel in Nürnberger Nachrichten on March 9, 2014. Retrieved on June 13, 2015