Sea pond
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '39 " N , 13 ° 32' 18" E | ||||||||
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| Lock type: | Gravity dam | ||||||||
| Construction time: | 1828 | ||||||||
| Height above the river bed : | 8 m | ||||||||
| Height of the structure crown: | 360 m | ||||||||
| Operator: | Sachsenforst | ||||||||
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| Water surface | 1.5 ha | ||||||||
| Reservoir length | 225 m | ||||||||
| Reservoir width | 60 m | ||||||||
The Seerenteich is a former raft pond on the Dresden – Werdau railway line in the Tharandt Forest in Saxony . It was built in the Seerenbachtal as a water reservoir for the Weißeritz rafting company , later served for local recreation and is now used for fish farming.
geography
The Seerenteich is halfway between Kleindorfhain and Grillenburg on the southern edge of the Tharandt forest. The storage space and the overflow are located in the Grillenburg district of the city of Tharandt , the dam on the Dorfhain district . The pond is surrounded in the northwest by the A-Hübel (400 m), in the south by the Steinberg (426 m) and in the southwest by the Second Hübel (420 m). To the west is the small raft pond.
history
In 1717, the Seerenbach was expanded by adding water from the Triebisch and the X-Bach for the rafting of firewood and logs to Dresden. To increase the flow of water, raft ponds were created, which were drained with a surge during the wood flood, which was mostly carried out during the snowmelt in spring. The large raft pond was upstream on the confluence of the raft moat from the Triebisch, the small raft pond at the raft moat from the X-Bach; there was also a smaller raft pond downstream in a right side valley. There was also a pond at the site of the Seerenteich, but it was only recognizable by an old dam on maps from the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1828 the sea pond was created on this old pond site. The new raft pond was not created in the same way as the other raft ponds with an earth embankment; it was built with a massive gravity dam , as it was at the time mainly used in the mining ponds. After its completion, the Seerenteich had a water surface of 24,000 m². The pond up to eight meters deep at the dam replaced the large raft pond as the main reservoir for the surge in the 23 km long raft route to Dresden.
Between 1859 and 1862 the railway line from Tharandt to Freiberg was laid through the Seerenbachtal. It runs directly to the left of the Seerenteich. The large raft pond was dug up because of the railway construction. In 1872, wood was rafted for the last time on the Seerenbach. Three years later, the entire Weißeritz rafting business was given up, as timber transport by rail was more advantageous.
With the tourist development of the Tharandt Forest, which began at the end of the 19th century, the Seerenteich became a popular excursion destination. Below the dam, the Seerenteichbaude was built in Dorfhainer Flur and the pond was mainly used as a gondola pond.
After the Second World War, the Seerenteichbaude became a company holiday home, the Seerenteich served as a bathing and gondola pond. At the end of the 1960s, the run-down Seerenteichbaude was demolished. With that the boat rental expired. The Seerenteich continued to be used as a bathing pond. From the beginning of the 1970s until the turn of the century, the pond, hidden in the Tharandt forest and only visible from the passing railroad, was a popular meeting place for nudists .
Since the 1990s, the pond owned by the Free State of Saxony has increasingly silted up due to neglected maintenance. Due to the August floods of 2002 , the lake was almost completely covered with sediments. The Sachsenforst state enterprise then had the pond cleared, the top of the wall, the harrow house and the overflow repaired; the pin was also renewed. Since 2007 the pond has been leased to the Tharandt trout farm as a fish breeding and fishing water.
Of the raft ponds, only the sea pond and the small raft pond, which was restored as a biotope after 1990, still exist.
