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.

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Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Brandenburg

Hesse

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Thuringia

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

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Bode (river) River in Germany

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Pine Flat Dam Dam in Fresno County, California

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Arkabutla Lake

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Rappbode Dam Dam in Harz

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Lichte Ortsteil of Neuhaus am Rennweg in Thuringia, Germany

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Oker Dam

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Königshütte Dam Dam in Harz county

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Rappbode Auxiliary Dam Dam in Harz

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Kelbra Dam Dam in Saxony-Anhalt

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Blackwater Dam

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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.