Upper Pond (Kaliningrad)

The upper pond (Russian пруд Верхний / prud Verkhny ) in Kaliningrad is located 22 m above the river Pregel and is approximately 41.1 hectares.

He was in 1270 by the Teutonic Knights in Königsberg as a second storage pond and fish pond above the castle pond created. Later, the surrounding greenery with the rose gardens in the residential district Maraunenhof were connected. The dam was the Wrangelstraße. On April 1, 1882 upper pond was incorporated from the district of Königsberg in the municipality and the urban district of Königsberg.

Four " leveling " ( streams ) drained the upper pond, three west, one east of the castle pond, and attracted to the Pregel. They dined many public wells and pumps. The student flow and the mill stream were taken partly in oak tubes and were extended in 1527 to Schmerlenteichen for the ducal table. You boggy and had on their stench descriptive names such as Lazy Pond and Black Sea. The mill leveling were bought in 1872 and buried by the city. 1903 the Katzbach was channeled and filled its old bed.

Today, on the northern Upper Pond created the settlement " Yasnaya Polyana". In the lake perch, roach, carp, tench, pike and eels.

During renovation work, have been continuing for five years, created by Hermann Thiele and 1913 set out seal sculptures were placed poorly maintained. A total of three billion rubles were spent on the beautification.