Hučák small hydropower plant in Hradec Králové

In 1893, the city of Hradec Králové also acquired water power on both fortress weirs - the Elbe, the so-called "roaring" and the Orlické, by purchasing the walls and fortress lands from the c. and k. military era. During the modification of the Elbe carried out in the years 1907-1911 by the Czech Waterways Directorate in Hradec Králové, a new movable weir was built in place of the fixed "roaring" weir in order to relieve large waters and prevent flooding, which...