Hornberg Basin

Hornberg Basin
Hornberg Basin - Upper storage reservoir of the Wehr pumped hydropower station
Location	Landkreis Waldshut
Construction began	1970–1975
Dam and spillways
Height (foundation)	65 m
Height (thalweg)	65 m
Length	1715 m
Elevation at crest	1050.00 m
Width (crest)	5 m
Dam volume	2200000 m3
Reservoir
Active capacity	4.4 million m³
Surface area	0.17 km2
Maximum length	0.700 km
Maximum width	0.300 km
Normal elevation	1048.00 m

The Hornberg Basin from the air (31 Jan 2015).

The Hornberg Basin during renovations in November 2008

The Hornberg Basin (German: Hornbergbecken) is the upper reservoir of the power station, whose lower reservoir is impounded by the Wehra Dam. It lies near Herrischried (Hornberg) and near the town of Wehr in the county of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg on the dome of the , the highest hill in the Hotzenwald. It was opened in 1975, is only used to generate pumped-storage power and is operated by the Schluchseewerk.

An addition to the existing Hornberg Basin was planned as part of building the , but the effort was cancelled in 2017 by the local operating company EnBW.^[1] With a length of almost one kilometre and storage capacity of 9 million m³ it would have been considerably larger than the present Hornberg Basin.

See also[]

• List of dams in Germany

References[]

Literature[]

• Festschrift Hornbergstufe der Schluchseewerk AG. November 1976
• Peter Franke, Wolfgang Frey: Talsperren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. DNK – DVWK 1987, ISBN 3-926520-00-0.