Soap pond
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '42 " N , 14 ° 37' 52" E | ||||||||
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| Construction time: | before 1566 | ||||||||
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| Water surface | 22.7 ha | ||||||||
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Broken in 1803 |
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The soap pond , also known as Großer Teich , Mönchsteich , Großer Mönchsteich or Großer Hennersdorfer Teich , was a fish pond on the Leutersdorfer Wasser in Upper Lusatia . Its pond, which has been deserted since 1803, is located northwest of the Großer Stein on the corridors of Seifhennersdorf and Leutersdorf and is now used as arable land. The dam with tall deciduous trees has been preserved.
location
The fish pond was created below Niederleutersdorf , where the Leutersdorfer water on the Großer Stein turns west. Its dam lies at the upper end of Seifen, where the wide valley between the Mönchsberg and Hartheberg narrows again, between the level crossing and the Mönchsbergweg.
history
Nothing is known about the time of the creation of the soap pond; it was probably built in the 16th century. The pond belonging to Tollenstein Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1566. When the Zittau council bought the Niederhennersdorf estate and soaps from the Rumburg rulership in 1584, it also acquired the soap pond. With the transfer of Upper Lusatia after the Peace of Prague, the Seifenteich also came to the Electorate of Saxony in 1635 ; in the north, from then on, the pond bordered the Bohemian exclave Niederleutersdorf.
With an area of 22.7 hectares, the soap pond was the largest fish pond in the city of Zittau and was often referred to as the large pond . He extended over the entire valley between the villages of soaps, Neuleutersdorf , Loss Kleineutersdorf, Joseph Village and result . The pond was stocked with 80 to 129 shock three-year-old carp . The Zittau councilors celebrated the fishing in the pond keeper's house not far from the dam.
At the end of the 18th century, the robber Johannes Karasek made several use of the carp from the soap pond and dined in the Greibichschenke in the Bohemian Neuwalde .
On July 4, 1803, the soap pond dam tore after heavy rainfall. The badly constructed dam could no longer withstand the pressure of the highly strained pond, as the drainage was also damaged. A flood poured through the torn wide section of the dam, destroying the small pond in front of it and then flowing through the village of Seifen. This caused considerable damage, and numerous houses were flooded.
In the years 1805 and 1821, the "Seyfenteich" in Seifhennersdorf was listed as an unconstrained pond among the 105 Zittau council fish ponds, although it was noted that the pond that was torn out would probably not be restored.
In the middle of the 19th century lignite was briefly mined near Josephsdorf in the "Black Coal Mine on the Great Pond" .
The pond site was initially used as meadow land; later it was completely drained and turned into arable land. The settlement areas of Leutersdorf and Seifhennersdorf were not extended to include the pond site.
In 1956, land borders were relocated between the municipalities of Seifhennersdorf and Leutersdorf, with Seifhennersdorf ceding 31 hectares between the Grenzweg and the mine bridge as well as the suburb, including about half of the former soap pond, to Leutersdorf.
In 2016, the city of Seifhennersdorf decided to restore the large pond as a flood retention basin.
Web links
- The big pond, Karasek and the lovely femininity
- Robber Captain Karasek - The adventurous life of the “Prager Hansel” with a map of the Bohemian exclave Niederleutersdorf and the soap pond
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leutersdorf Community Gazette No. 3/2011 p. 4
- ^ Sächsische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft: Origin and development of the Upper Lusatian pond economy p. 88
- ^ Black coal works at the large pond near Seifhennersdorf, 1852
- ↑ Leutersdorf Community Gazette No. 3/2011 p. 4
- ↑ Seifhennersdorfer Official Gazette No. 6/2016 p. 1