Rosenhofer Teiche

The two Rosenhofer Ponds ( Upper and Lower ) are about 18 km north-east of Freistadt in the municipality of Sandl and belong to the possession of the family Czernin -Kinsky. The artificial lakes belong to the castle Rosenhof. Both ponds have a length of about 600 meters and a width of approximately 300 meters. The smaller (lower ) is a public lake, while the upper is not publicly available.

Both ponds have excellent water quality and are home to rare plants, such as the marsh - tress and water birds like cormorants.

Through the ponds of the flame stream that flows into the Black Aist flows. This in turn leads on the Waldaist in the Aist and thus into the Danube.

Wood glut

The Rosenhofer ponds were mainly built to have enough water for the timber glut. The princely Schwarzenberg forest engineer Joseph Rose Auer, builder of the Schwarzenberg Navigational Canal, planned and constructed the wooden glut at the Aist. Its length was nearly 80 km, slope 650 meters; 50 weirs were on the track.

In the 19th and even the 20th century, every spring wood above the flash Bach, the Black Aist and Waldaist was getriftet in the Aist, where the strains were then bound to large rafts in Au an der Donau and transported to Vienna. Another major customer was the paper and board mill DJ Merckens in Josefstal ( Aisttal above Sword Mountain ), at that time the largest paper mill of the monarchy, and even Europe. It was not until 1947, the labor-intensive and dangerous floating timber was set - you could now transport the logs cheaper by truck and rail.

48.56583333333314.676388888889Koordinaten: 48 ° 33 ' 57 " N, 14 ° 40' 35" E

• Lake in Europe
• Lake in Upper Austria
• Sandl
• Lakes group