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Location: Neukirchen-Balbini, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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2. Breitenbrucker Weiher – Kindskopfweiher loop from Bodenwöhr Nord

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October 12, 2023

Breitenbruck pond

This beautiful 19 hectare pond, formerly a “stately” pond, was created before the Thirty Years' War. The dam in the swampy area was laboriously constructed using clay and fill.

In 1646 he was subordinate to the Electoral Hoffischamt Amberg and was released every two years. Carp, pike, nerflings and crabs were planted. They were sold to the court kitchen, innkeepers (as far away as Regensburg), and some went to the Capuchins as alms as “Lenten fish”. The population of ducks and wild geese was also hunted through falconry.

In 1755 the electoral court sold the pond by inheritance to the brewer Vetter and the innkeeper von Penting. In 1838, the Bodenwöhr BHS-Hüttenwerk mining authority bought the Breitenbrucker Weiher from the brewer Vetter zu Egelsried for 3,000 guilders. The clay from the pond was used to fill the hammer pond.

The pond is on clay, has little lime and is 1-2.5 meters deep. The water flows in via the silver ditch (from the pile) and from the moor.

The pond was purchased by the Bavarian State Forestry in 1994. Because of its high ecological value, it was declared a natural forest reserve in 1995.

In 2020, restoration work was necessary due to beaver damage to the dam.

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Location: Neukirchen-Balbini, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Breitenbrucker Weiher

1. View of Hammersee – Kleinbarmoosweiher loop from Bodenwöhr Nord

2. Breitenbrucker Weiher – Kindskopfweiher loop from Bodenwöhr Nord

3. Breitenbrucker Weiher – Klausbrunnen loop from Goppoltsried

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