Brick pond
A brick pond is an artificial lake or larger pond that was created by excavating material (mainly loam and clay ) in a brick factory . This is done in a clay pit or a so-called clay stitch . When the quality of groundwater is good, are brick ponds, like lakes , often called lake used. In northern Germany, such waters are often called clay pits or loam pits .
Although the embankments are usually very steep, there is - in contrast to many other quarry ponds - little risk of landslides . The clay-containing material has a high strength due to the cohesion of the clay particles.
Reuse of brick ponds
Numerous large and even smaller brick ponds have emerged in the southern Vienna Basin , for example , where Wienerberger AG , which is now globally active, had its first large mining areas. On Wienerberg in the south of Vienna , a large recreational area has been created on the site of what was once Austria's largest brickworks , in the middle of which there is a large brick pond with flat banks. Another large brick pond is located in the Brunn am Gebirge recreation area , northwest of the Shopping City Süd . The brick ponds are partly used for fishing and swimming. However, numerous ponds have been filled in over the last few decades in order to gain ground. Individual ponds, where flora and fauna worthy of protection have formed over the decades, are only rarely able to be permanently protected, such as the Flemmingsche Tonkuhle in Altwarmbüchen and the figure near Mödling, where half of the pond was filled in and the other under nature protection was asked. Others were bought by the communities and converted into a bath.
The Ziegeleisee in the north-west of Berlin was formed by the inflow of groundwater after clay mining had ended. Today the Lübars open-air swimming pool is located on the Ziegeleisee .
In Hildesheim, the community radio radio Tonkuhle was named after the Tonkuhle used as a bathing lake in the Marienburger Höhe district.
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- ↑ New contact at Figurteich in Guntramsdorf on July 14, 1998, accessed on August 18, 2009
- ^ Resolution to the governor of Lower Austria, Dr. Erwin Pröll, decided at the rally to save the "FIGUR" natural monument in Guntramsdorf on August 12, 1998: accessed on August 18, 2009