Russenweiher (Speyer)

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Russian pond
Russenweiher Speyer.png
Russian pond from the north bank
Geographical location Rhineland-Palatinate
Speyer
Tributaries none
Drain none
Places on the shore Speyer
Data
Coordinates 49 ° 18 '27 "  N , 8 ° 26' 27"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '27 "  N , 8 ° 26' 27"  E
Russenweiher (Speyer) (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Russenweiher (Speyer)
Altitude above sea level 94.1  m above sea level NHN
surface 1.2 ha
length 210 m
width 75 m
Maximum depth 5 m

The Russenweiher is a small quarry pond of approx. 1.2 hectares in the south of Speyer in its Neuland residential area.

The lake was created around 1900 when the owner of the property, the farmer Franz Thomas, dredged it for the purpose of gravel extraction. The gravel served as the raw material for building projects at the time in the city of Speyer, in particular for the construction of the barracks for the Bavarian pioneers - later French barracks, now the Quartier Normand residential area - and for the hospital of the Protestant Diakonissenanstalt Speyer . Due to the simple mining technique at the time, the lake is only one to five meters deep.

Names

During the First World War , Russian prisoners of war from the Orth furniture factory, which stretched on the northern part of Rheinhäuser Strasse in the direction of what would later become Winternheimer Strasse, were assigned to forced labor. The Russians who were prisoners of war were housed in two barracks that had been built on the site of what would later be the Kretz dental technology laboratory. They used the nearby Thomas waters for bathing for at least one or two summers.

Development in the area: The new territory

The Neuland settlement in the area of ​​Im Lenhart and the Russenweiher was largely self-help through a construction work group founded in 1922.

The Russenweiher became the favorite bathing pond for young people in Neuland. In the 1920s, the then association Wasserfreunde Speyer demarcated part of the water as a swimming lane and part as a water polo area and built a wooden club house.

angler

The water is leased for fishing to the Anglerfreunde-Speyer eV association

Problems

The shallow depth and the intensive input of organic matter, for example through the leaves of the willow on the edge of the bank, have led to the massive accumulation of oxygen-sapping mud in the silting lake.

literature

  • Hans Schiefele: At the Russenweiher and other childhood stories . Verlag Ars Una, Munich 1992, ISIN 978-3893918058

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Russenweiher and the surrounding area
General introduction without default settings and layers: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

  1. ↑ Height in the lake as indicated in blue.
  2. ↑ a b c measured area, length and width.

Other evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the depth after the page on the Russenweiher of Anglerfreunde Speyer eV
  2. ^ Wk: The bath of the Russians. TOWN STORY (S): How the Russian pond got its name . Article in the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz based on documents of the Werner Kretz family - the farmer Franz Thomas was one of the ancestors of Werner Kretz's wife, from December 3, 2014, page spe_hp16_lk-stadt.02 - the article was also published in excerpts on the website of the Speyer Historical Society
  3. ^ Wk: The bath of the Russians. TOWN STORY (S): How the Russian pond got its name . Article in the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz based on documents of the Werner Kretz family - the farmer Franz Thomas was one of the ancestors of Werner Kretz's wife, from December 3, 2014, page spe_hp16_lk-stadt.02 - the article was also published in excerpts on the website of the Speyer Historical Society
  4. ↑ http://www.tagespost-speyer.de/index.php?c=592&action=show&f=suchen&cn=20&search=russenweiher
  5. ^ Wk: The bath of the Russians. TOWN STORY (S): How the Russian pond got its name . Article in the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz based on documents from the Werner Kretz family - the farmer Franz Thomas was one of the ancestors of Werner Kretz's wife, from December 3, 2014, page spe_hp16_lk-stadt.02
  6. ↑ http://anglerfreunde-speyer.npage.de/gewaesser/russenweiher.html
  7. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=978-3893918058

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