Nasser Garten was separated from the Pregel meadows by a levee known alternately as the Poetensteig, Nassengärter Damm, and Poeten-Damm.Jung, p. 36 It is disputed whether the levee was named after the poet Simon Dach. The area north of the levee would often flood in springtime and have to be drained by post mills propelled by horses; Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz described the process in his Königsberg Skizzen.Gause, p. 393 The levee had to be rebuilt after a flood on 12 February 1894.Zweck, p. 71
