Trappensee

The Trappensee is an approximately 0.6 -acre lake in Heilbronn in Baden- Württemberg.

Geographical location

The Trappensee lies at the western foot of the mountains Heilbronner about 2.5 km east of Heilbronn town center in a valley at 183 m above sea level. NN. Fed him the topper of the fountain in the south of the valley passing topper Bach, which is then called in its western underflow Pfühlbach. Immediately south of the lake, the circular road runs 9550 ( Jägerhausstraße ) from Heilbronn to Hunter's house, the forest heath and after Donnbronn.

History

The lake already existed in the 16th century. He was once called after its owner, the mayor Philip Orth (1534-1603), Orthensee. Orth, built 1575/76 there is a farm with fruit growing and fish farming, leaving middle of the water to build a mansion. The property was, from 1653, after the lake was owned by the Mayor Ludwig Trapp ( 1596-1655 ), its present name Trappensee. The so-called Trappenseeschlösschen, a little water castle in the middle of the lake, leaving the Dutch Admiral Heinrich August Kinkel (or Kinckel ) establish, after he had come into the possession of the plant in 1784.

The Trappensee was to spread the city of Heilbronn in their surrounding areas in the 20th century outside the settlement boundary. The newly established in December 2005 and served by trains of the Light Rail Heilbronn Heilbronn Trappensee breakpoint at the nearby railway line Crailsheim -Heilbronn is named after him.