List of dams and reservoirs in Germany

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These are dams and reservoirs in Germany.

The German word Talsperre (literally: valley barrier) may mean dam, but it is often used to include the associated reservoir as well.[1] The reservoirs are often separately given names ending in -see, -teich or -speicher which are the German words for "lake", "pond" and "reservoir", but in this case all may also be translated as "reservoir". The more specific word for the actual dam is Staumauer and for the lake is Stausee.

Baden-Württemberg[]

Bavaria[]

Brandenburg[]

  • Spremberg Reservoir

Hesse[]

Lower Saxony[]

North Rhine-Westphalia[]

Saxony[]

Saxony-Anhalt[]

Thuringia[]

In Thuringia there are 171 reservoirs. The biggest of them are:

  • (biggest reservoir in Germany, volume: ~215 million m³), river Saale
  • Deesbach Forebay (height 42.5 m; volume ~3.2 million m³), river Lichte
  • (~25 million m³), flooded opencast mining area
  • (volume: ~182 million m³), river Saale
  • Leibis-Lichte Dam (height 102.5 m; volume ~32,4 million m³), river Lichte
  • Neustadt Dam - Thuringia's oldest dam
  • (~21,2 million m³), river Schmalwasser
  • (~23,2 million m³), river Schleuse
  • (~30,4 million m³), river Weida

See also[]

  • List of dams in the Harz

References[]

  1. ^ Worsch, Wolfgang. Großwörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch, Langescheidt Muret-Sanders, Langescheidt KG, 2004, p. 1010. ISBN 3-468-02126-7
  2. ^ "Rappbodetalsperre". www.talsperren.net (in German). Retrieved 17 October 2009.
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