The best walks and hikes around Neukirchen-Balbini

Kleinbarmoosweiher

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Breitenbruck pond This beautiful 19 hectare pond, formerly a “stately” pond, was created before the Thirty Years' War. The dam in the swampy area was laboriously constructed using clay and fill. In 1646 he was subordinate to the Electoral Hoffischamt Amberg and was released every two years. Carp, pike, nerflings and crabs were planted. They were sold to the court kitchen, innkeepers (as far away as Regensburg), and some went to the Capuchins as alms as “Lenten fish”. The population of ducks and wild geese was also hunted through falconry. In 1755 the electoral court sold the pond by inheritance to the brewer Vetter and the innkeeper von Penting. In 1838, the Bodenwöhr BHS-Hüttenwerk mining authority bought the Breitenbrucker Weiher from the brewer Vetter zu Egelsried for 3,000 guilders. The clay from the pond was used to fill the hammer pond. The pond is on clay, has little lime and is 1-2.5 meters deep. The water flows in via the silver ditch (from the pile) and from the moor. The pond was purchased by the Bavarian State Forestry in 1994. Because of its high ecological value, it was declared a natural forest reserve in 1995. In 2020, restoration work was necessary due to beaver damage to the dam. Source: information board

Large Barmoos pond The Great Barmoosweiher was declared part of the Postloher Weiherplatte natural forest reserve in 1995, so there is no use of wood, no duck hunting, no stocking of fish and no annual draining. The pond was dammed with clay dams around 500 years ago by the Electoral Palatinate subjects using forced labor in the moor. The Electoral Hoffischamt Amberg had pike, carp and crabs fished every 1-3 years for the court kitchen and the monasteries. The pond was later owned by the Bodenwöhr iron hammer mill. In 1994 it was purchased by the Bavarian State Forestry Administration. For the first time since 1971, the golden-eye duck has been breeding in old, spongy pine trees high up in black woodpecker caves at the Großer Barmoosweiher. In 2020, the pond dam had to be extensively restored due to beaver damage, and there was a risk of the dam breaking. The forestry department therefore brought in a lot of structural steel mesh, hydraulic stones and soil to stabilize the dam. A massive intervention in the edge of the natural forest reserve was therefore necessary, and the Breitenbrucker and Fuchsenweiher dams also had to be renovated. Source: Information board at the Großer Barmoosweiher

Forest trail / tree trail, circular route at the parking lot

Pure nature at the saddle arch pond.

Beautiful hiking trail and nice rest areas around Hammersee

Beautiful forest trail and nice rest area