Lake Aschersleben

The Aschersleber Lake is a lake in the Harz mountains and adjacent to the urban area of ​​Aschersleben. In earlier years, he was also known as Gatersleber lake or Wilsleber referred lake and since the Second World War by the inhabitants of Aschersleben also called Junkerssee because it bordered directly on the work of the Junkers aircraft and engine plants.

History

Before the beginning of our era northwest of Aschersleben was a wide water surface, which reached to Gatersleben and just before Quedlinburg and sticking out their swampy surface islands and peninsulas. Due to the abundance of game and fish, as well as the numerous varieties of reeds on the banks of the lake, settlers were attracted to the lake thousands of years ago.

The over time more and more increasing siltation of the lake prompted the Bishop Burchard of Halberstadt in 1446 to fill " the lake " with fresh water. He let near Gaterslebens a high wall built and so drove the waters of the Selke in the lake basin. The goal of the bishop was always supplied by this measure the underlying numerous monasteries around the lake, the popular fast food fish. It was thus large land areas sacrificed to the water, including the villages Haselsdorf and Hargersdorf. The right of fishing on the Aschersleber area was to the rate in Aschersleben. For centuries flourished as the fish trade in Aschersleben and environment.

Nevertheless, there was a long dispute over fishing rights in the lake by the Abbess of Gernrode Elisabeth von Weida played a decisive role. As from the new lake lessons should be drawn, the bishopric of Halberstadt and the pin Gernrode claimed for each of the fishing rights. The Halberstadt argued that they would have regenerated the lake, whereas the glad Röder spearheaded that the lake lies to a large extent on surfaces of the pin Frose and the abbess of Gernrode due supervision. In addition, Frose complained to the Abbess because of flooded by the sea pen fields and meadows. On 20 December 1510, the settlement was reached. The abbess renounced all rights to the lake for the benefit of the Bishop of Halberstadt and the Council of the town of Aschersleben.

In 1700 the Prussian King Frederick I of the proposal was made to drain the water of the lake, thereby win large stretches of fertile land. The king ordered despite massive resistance from Aschersleben the draining of the lake. In 1703, we began with the derivation of the lake on Gatersleber side, and two years later on Aschersleber page. The Aschersleber Council had to take over the costs. In 1709 the land was reclaimed by drainage ditches. In the forthcoming distribution of land to the town of Aschersleben was transferred almost a quarter of its rightful territory. At that time he also wrote his places Friedrichsaue and Königsaue which were named in honor of the king. Part of the Seeländereien has been used for a long time for peat extraction.

After the discovery of lignite deposits in space Aschersleben by Hugo Sholto Douglas Earl of lignite mining in civil engineering in the pit Georg in 1828 was started. Due to the necessary drainage measures were in accordance with the open pit development is a long-range lowering of the ground water. So it happened frequently during degradation of brown coal to water ingress into the tunnel, because the water table is pressed the studs. In 1920, the Aschersleber lignite mining ended by collapse of civil engineering cavities, groundwater level rose again and it was what we today " Aschersleber " or " Wilsleber lake ".

In 1928 and later in 1964 the places Nachterstedt Königsaue and had to be partially or completely to give way to coal mining. In the field of large Aschersleber lake created by flooding of any two opencast mining holes since 1996 Concordiasee at Nachterstedt and the smaller Königsauer lake. ".

→ see also: History of the companies in the town of Aschersleben