Black pond
| Black pond | ||
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| Black pond near Weißenstadt | ||
| Geographical location | District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge , Upper Franconia , Bavaria , Germany | |
| Tributaries | from a former mine tunnel | |
| Drain | … → Birkenbach → Eger → Elbe → North Sea | |
| Location close to the shore | Weißenstadt | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '56.2 " N , 11 ° 53' 29.6" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 639 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 0.26 ha | |
| Catchment area | 90 ha | |
The Schwarze Weiher (popularly known as the Schwarzweiher) is located in the Fichtel Mountains at the northern foot of the Rudolfstein , about two kilometers southeast of the town of Weißenstadt in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains . The artificially created reservoir is located in a former tin ore mining area, which is criss-crossed by deep trenches and extensive spoil heaps.
The pond is fed by a watercourse that rises on the northern slope of the Rudolfstein in a former mining tunnel and flows into the Birkenbach from the left between Meierhof and the perennial mill, which in turn soon flows north and from the right into the upper Eger .
An old path (now a forest road) leads over the dam of the Schwarzweiher from Meierhof to Weißenstadt . In the Middle Ages, the Seifner used this route to drive the tin from the Vordorf tin soaps with wheelbarrows to the tin smelter in Weißenstadt. The tin soaps were located to the west and east of the pond dam.
Biotope
The Schwarzweiher and its surrounding area is an ecologically particularly valuable area. Next to the water surface there is a transitional moor with typical vegetation. The alder population around the pond has the character of a wet forest. The landowner is the Fichtelgebirgsverein (FGV), which bought the areas worth protecting in 2003 with funds from the FGV-Naturschutzstiftung and the Fichtelgebirge Nature Park . The FGV local association Franconia has taken over the care and maintenance of the biotope .
Below the Schwarzweiher, east of the aforementioned forest road, is the Schwarzweihermoor, a biotope pond with transition moor, which is also located in a tin mining area. The FGV acquired this protected area in 2010.
literature
- Karl Kraus: Weißenstädter Heimatbuch . 1971, p. 113 f .
- Beate Küspert: The vegetation of the fens in the northwestern Fichtelgebirge and their local conditions . 1989, p. 69 (diploma thesis).
- Rudolf Thiem: On the history of tin mining in the Fichtelgebirge . Ed .: Fichtelgebirgsverein (= The Fichtelgebirge . Volume 8 ). 1998.
- Dietmar Herrmann: Trip to the biotope and nature trail of the Fichtelgebirgsverein . In: The Seven Star . 2006, p. 232 .
- Rudolf Thiem: From the FGV biotope Schwarzer Weiher and from the former uranium mine at Rudolfstein . In: The Seven Star . 2011, p. 289 .
cards
- Topographic map of the Bavarian Land Survey Office No. 5937 Fichtelberg