Bremer Teich

The Bremer Pond, Deer Pond and originally called since 1968 for a while Bremer Damm pond, in the Harz mountain range, is a 1796 scale and about 3.7 ha large storage pond in the wooded southern slopes of the urban area of ​​Gernrode in the district of Harz, in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical location

The Bremer Teich is located in the Lower Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. Between Friedrich Brunn ( Thale ) and Mägdesprung ( Harzgerode ) it is in the forest about 4.5 km south-southwest of Gernrode ( Quedlinburg ) about 2 km east of Viktor height ( 581.5 m above sea level. NN ) to 423.2 m above sea level. NN. Fed and drained it is from Bremen ditch that flows southeastward for Selke. His receiving waters are the Selke, Bode and Saale. Not far past the road leads the Romanesque and the bike path north resin.

History and Description

Hundred years before the birth of the Bremer Pond 1696 slightly southwest of today's pond was killed the last bear in the Anhaltisches Forestry during a coursing through the Princes of Anhalt Victor Amadeus. To commemorate it, the Bears monument was erected around 1900.

The Bremer pond was created in 1796 and was meant for catching deer, where his original name, Deer Pond was derived. It owes its present name to the engineer Bremer, who constructed the dam.

As the dam is an earth dam with internal compression. In 1968, this was reinforced by landfill and the water was a while Bremer Damm pond. In this case, a youth hostel, tent sites and a restaurant, which even today are used as a natural pool at the pond created so that it serves with its environment as a recreational area.

Hiking

The Bremer Teich is included as No. 196 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.