Czechia - Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin

The Trebon Basin is a world?famous area of Southern Bohemia. Its marvelous nature and landscape arising from sophisticated man's waterworks are multiplied by numerous cnd topquality cultural monuments. There, we can also still admire important historical technical works that transformed the originally forbidding forests and marshland into a prosperous region. The advanced fish farming, which had developed from the Middle Ages, culminated in works of Renaissance masters ? fish?pond builders ? $tepanek Netolickjr, Ruthard of Male§sov, and Jakub Krcin of Jelcany. The most important technical works in the region of Tfeboh include fish ponds of the Rozmberk fish?pond system along the so?called Golden Canal and the New River ? man?made rivers built in the 16th century. Predominant in the fishpond network are two ponds. The Rozmberk Pond, currently the largest fish?pond in the Czech Republic, and the Svet Pond that, being part of the historical entrenchments of the town of Trebon, is still an important monument of both historical and technical significance.