Stamping station 211 / Kiliansteiche

The Kiliansteiche reservoir is located between Straßberg and the Schindelbruch nature resort in the “Straßberger Wiesen”.

Orig­i­nal­ly, there was a reser­voir cas­cade on the site of the dam, con­sist­ing of 4 ponds, one of which was men­tioned in a doc­u­ment as ear­ly as 1610. From 1703, fur­ther Kil­ian ponds were built in con­nec­tion with min­ing in Straßberg. 

As two of the dams had already been bro­ken in 1901 and 1944 respec­tive­ly and the remain­ing one was in poor con­di­tion, the Sax­ony-Anhalt dam com­pa­ny built the Kil­ianste­ich dam from 1989 to 1995 with a 25 m high and 210 m long rock­fill dam.

Above the Kil­ianste­ich dam, the Kil­ianste­ich pre-dam was built with a 7 m high and 110 m long earth dam. The arti­fi­cial Büschen­graben, which orig­i­nates from the Gräf­in­grün­der Teich and the Möllerte­ich, is dammed here. Both dams are used for flood pro­tec­tion, to raise low water lev­els and as a drink­ing water reserve. 

The stamp­ing sta­tion is locat­ed at the earth dam of the Kil­ianste­ich reser­voir and can be reached from both the Schin­del­bruch nature resort and the Auer­berg vaca­tion vil­lage via the hik­ing trails past the Franken­te­ich pond. From Straßberg, you can reach the two reser­voirs through the Rödel­bach val­ley past the Malin­ius pond.