Máchovo jezero

The Machovo Lake ( German: Macha Lake, formerly also: Velky Dokský rybnik, German: Hirschberg Great Pond) was with 350 acres of water for a long time the largest pond in northern Bohemia. Today, its area is only 278 hectares and is located in the city Doksy ( Hirschberg at the lake) in the North Bohemian Liberec Region.

Laid out the pond in 1366, with Emperor Charles IV himself has created hand. It is located in a source area, and will continue from Břehyňský rybnik ( Heidemühlteich ) and Čepelský rybnik ( Tschöpelteich ) fed.

Another place on Mácha is Staré Splavy ( Thammühl ), since 1850, belonging to Doksy, where is the dam of the pond. The sequence of the pond is the Mlýnský Potok ( Mühlbach ), which flows into the now largely marshy Novozámecký rybnik ( Hirnser large pond).

In the pond there are 2 islands, of which the Myślin ( Mouse Castle ) said, the remains of feasts " Myßlin " bears ( Myší hrádek ). To the system, as well as on the neighboring mountain Klůček ( Klutschken ), the of legends about the robbery knight armor, the Charles IV starve in mice Castle.

In honor of the Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Macha, the area around the Bezděz ( Bösig ), which is after him called Máchův Kraj, well-visited and has been described several times, the pond was named Machovo Lake, before the names were Velky rybnik or Hirschberský rybnik common.

The Machovo Lake is not only a popular camping center at its shores nesting site for waterfowl, and there are protected areas for rare plants.

In German, the translated label Macha Lake is often used for the lake.

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• Reservoir in Europe
• Reservoir in the Czech Republic
• Dam in the Czech Republic
• Elbe river system
• Okres Ceska Lipa
• Pond in the Czech Republic
• 1366
• Built in the 1360s