Top 7 Lakes around Brno

The owners of the Troub estate, mainly the Sekors, set up ponds. The earliest mentions can be found in the names of tracks from 1749: U Rybník, Nad Rybníkem, meadows under Horní Rybníček, Na Rybníčké, Pod Sádkama; from 1787: Above the Great Pond, Above the Last Pond, Above the Ponds. The mill under Dolní rybník was built in 1787 by Jan Král, after whom it was also called Královec. The lower pond was at the beginning of the 20th century. converted to an array. Restoration of the Lower Pond began in 1949, and it was filled in 1950. During mud removal in 1989, over 20,000 m of mud was excavated. Currently, the ponds are a center for summer and winter recreation. In Horní rybník, we can see thousands of frogs at the turn of April and May.

Nice place in a great location. The excursion boat stops here, the staff is friendly and attentive and anyone who wants to can try flyboarding here.

Beautiful view of the Brno dam. More information: https://www.brnenskaprehrada.cz/ and https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brn%C4%9Bnsk%C3%A1_p%C5%99ehrada

Beautiful view of the narrow dam wall and the reservoir. More information: https://www.brnenskaprehrada.cz/

The Brněnská přehrada (German: Brno dam) is a dam and reservoir in the Czech Republic. It is eight kilometers northwest of Brno city center and dams the Svratka. The Svratka (German Schwarzach) is a left tributary of the Thaya.

The concrete gravity dam of the Brno Reservoir or in the Pryglu hantec reaches 120 m. Inside is the Kníničky hydroelectric power plant. The dam was built at the end of the 1930s. At first it served as a source of drinking water, currently its purpose is recreational. The Ignis Brunensis fireworks are held every year on the surface of the dam.

The location of the natural monument is located in a forest complex at the bottom of a deep shady valley located a kilometer west of the Brno district of Soběšice. The core of the area consists of three bodies of water. On the one hand an overgrown forest pond, on the other a pond lying above it at the bottom of the pond with a broken dam and a small pond below the pond. The ponds were built on the Kubelín stream, which is a left tributary of the Ponávka river. The protected area also includes adjoining sections of a narrow floodplain at the bottom of the valley and adjacent slopes. The stream floodplain above and below the ponds is occupied by a natural community of ash alders with sticky alder, ash and elm. In the undergrowth, there are typical moisture-loving species such as European carabiner, aubergine, eggplant, sedge and buttercup, on the banks of the stream grows a wetland and sedge. Of the aquatic plants, there are, for example, floating rdest and curly rdest in ponds, and small leaves of the lesser duckweed float on the surface. In the spring, amphibians migrate to ponds from distant surroundings. The common toad, the common frog and the brown frog breed here, in the past a great newt was found, and more recently also a newt. At the water surface, slender water meters run on thin legs. The elongated area along the 400 m long stream was declared a protected natural creation in 1987. Later it was declared a natural monument on a total area of 1.2880 ha as an important location for amphibian reproduction. The area is accessible by a forest road adjoining Klokočí Street in Sobišická and going around the stream to the gamekeeper's lodge to the valley floodplain of the Ponávka river near Řečkovice. Source: https://www.turistika.cz/mista/volne-misto-743/detail

Today, the former Dolní rybník serves as a retention reservoir for the Ponávka river; Source: https://www.kafelanka.cz/mista/retencka.php