Fischbach (Pegnitz)

Fischbach, Steinernes military

The Fischbach is a small year-round running water in the Lorenz Imperial forest south-east of Nuremberg and can be counted among the country ditches in Nuremberg.

It rises east of the Nuremberg district Fischbach in the unincorporated area of the Nuremberg Fischbach country in the forest and flows west through the Vogelherdhöhle pond, passing under the A 9 and in the place Fischbach inside. There it flows past the Pellerschloss whose moat he dined earlier. In the West Fischbachs it flows back into the woods and backs up to the ice pond, which was formerly used in the winter for ice production for cooling beer.

One kilometer further forms of the stream Wood pond, just beyond stretches a Erlenbruchwald.

The fish creek flows north to the Russians meadow, a meadow, past. On Stone weir, the water can be directed to the dozen or pond to Valznerweiher. At the Nuremberg city limits of the creek is routed to an underground pond and then flows to the dozen over the Fischbach diversion channel to Valznerweiher and Goldbach.

Originally, the river flowed through Zerzabelshof and Tullnau in the Pegnitz. 1496 its run has been changed and flowed through the dozen pond, crossed the southern part of Nuremberg city wall, flowed past the White Tower and the Almosmühle and culminated at Hangman's Bridge in the Pegnitz. In 1813 he was verdolt in the old town and built over 1875-1881.

In the Middle Ages it was to conduct the nearby Röthenbach in Fischbach failed Smithson. Remains of the Gefüttertern ditch are still visible today.

In the Fischbach lead before Eisweiher the Augraben, when Russians meadow of black trench and the trench depth.

For water quality (as of 2006):

• At the headwaters to the ice pond: ( moderately polluted ) predominantly grade II
• From the ice pond to the Great dozen pond: Grade II - III ( critically polluted )
• From the Great dozen pond ( Fischbach diversion channel ) (class II - III)

Russians meadow

Between the Regensburger Straße and the Fischbach a camp for Russian prisoners of war, was built in the 1st World War. The local clearing was then called Russians meadow. During WW2 there was here from October 1942 to August 1943, a euphemistic " work camp " (AEL ) designated detention camp, operated by the Gestapo. Prison conditions were comparable to those in the concentration camps of the SS. After being destroyed by an air raid in August 1943, the camp after Langenzenn was moved in the district of Fürth.