Zlatá stoka
Zlatá stoka (German Golden Canal ) is a 45 km long artificial watercourse in the Czech Republic . It connects all the large fish ponds in the Wittingau basin . Until the 17th century it bore the simple name Bewässungsgraben (Příkop). Because of its importance for the system of fish ponds, it was named the Golden Canal during the time of the Schwarzenbergs .
history
The Strúha Canal was built in the Middle Ages at the Opavský mlýn mill to supply water to the fish ponds around Třeboň . The canal that has been in use since 1367 and connected the Dvořiště, Záblatský rybník and Bošilecký rybník ponds, deteriorated during the Hussite Wars.
Peter IV von Rosenberg commissioned Štěpánek Netolický with the construction of a new canal using the old Strúha Canal in the upper reaches. The construction period stretched from 1505 to 1520. The canal supplies several ponds with water and in the past also powered a few mills and was used in the upper section to flood wood.
location
Two kilometers southeast of Majdalena , above the confluence of the Koštěnický potok , at the Pilař weir in 441 m nm ( 48 ° 56 ′ 46 ″ N , 14 ° 52 ′ 49 ″ E ) water from the Lainsitz via Třeboň into the Rosenberg Pond and from there the Lainsitz continues to the west to Smržov , Lomnice nad Lužnicí , Záblatí ( Záblatský rybník ), Ponědraž and Ponědrážka . At the Horusický rybník above Veselí nad Lužnicí , the canal flows into the Lainsitz again at 410 m nm ( 49 ° 10 ′ 1 ″ N , 14 ° 42 ′ 9 ″ E, ) .
The canal is five to eight meters wide; its catchment area is 127 km², the average flow rate 1 m³ / s.
