Starochlumecký or Chlumecký pond

There is no one who has traveled by train through Chlumec nad Cidlinou without seeing a large body of water near the station there, which is called variously - from Starochlumecký to Chlumecký rybník (the first name used to be used in order to avoid confusion with the now-dried Velkoclumecký rybník, the German name Alt Chlumetzer Teich is also used) and is fed by the Lužecký stream. Historically, it belongs to the first…