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Schützteich Pond

Name: Schützteich Pond
Rating: 2

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Location: Ústecký kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

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1. Jöhstadt Town Center Monuments – Schützteich Pond loop from Jöhstadt

22.8km

01:41

380m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Schützteich Pond – Birch Grove loop from Vejprty koupaliště

23.3km

01:45

360m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. View of the Mountain Ridge – View of the Ore Mountains loop from Bärenstein (Annaberg)

34.2km

02:38

590m

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Jörg Mehnert

November 3, 2018

Before 1945 the Schutzeich was a popular seaside resort in Weipert. In winter, the frozen pond was a meeting place for ice skaters.
In winter, the ice of the Schutzeiches was sawn out in poles and stored well covered in a hut of Köhlerhaus Weipert 553. It was used by the Weiperter butchers, master brewers and innkeepers as coolants for the summer months.
The pond was originally designed for mining. In the Jungferngasse there was a Pochwerk for Erzer shredding, which was driven by the water of the Jungfernbach. To avoid lack of water, the shelter pond was created, he had a lock as a shut-off, called contactor.

The pond was also the place of the desperate, the suicide. After the war ended in 1945, a couple committed suicide together to escape the expulsion by the Czechs. Perhaps in despair a mother in 1900 drowned her one-year-old child in the pond. Other cases are bek

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Elevation 790 m

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Location: Ústecký kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

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Schützteich Pond

1. Jöhstadt Town Center Monuments – Schützteich Pond loop from Jöhstadt

2. Schützteich Pond – Birch Grove loop from Vejprty koupaliště

3. View of the Mountain Ridge – View of the Ore Mountains loop from Bärenstein (Annaberg)

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