Eder

Eder

Geobox River
name = Eder


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country = Germany
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region = North Rhine-Westphalia
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city = Frankenberg
city1 = Fritzlar
city2 = Edermünde
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source_location = Am Ederkopf
source_region = Sauerland
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source_elevation = 648
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image_caption = The Eder in the dry lake "Edersee" in 2003
The Eder is a 177 km long river in Germany, left tributary of the Fulda River. It was first mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus as the "Adrana" in the territory of the Chatti.

The river rises from the "Ederkopf" mountain in western North Rhine-Westphalia near the springs of the Lahn and Sieg rivers. Unlike the Lahn and Sieg, that are both tributaries of the Rhine, the Eder flows east and north and into the river Fulda at Edermünde, south of Kassel. At Hannoversch Münden, the Fulda joins with the Werra to form the Weser river which flows into the North Sea north of Bremen. Towns along the course of the Eder include Battenberg, Frankenberg, Waldeck and Fritzlar.

A rock-and-concrete dam (47 m high, 400 m long) completed in 1914 near the small town of Waldeck created the large Edersee reservoir, which is 27 km long and has a holding caopacity of 200 million m³ of water. It is used to generate hydro-electricity and to regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser river.

The dam was destroyed by British Avro Lancaster bombers of the RAF's 617 Squadron on 17 May 1943 (Operation Chastise). The bombers were equipped with special Barnes Wallis bouncing bombs. On the same night, the nearby Möhne Reservoir dam was also attacked, causing enormous destruction and loss of life downstream (the great majority of drowning victims were Ukrainian POWs in a labor camp just below the dam). The story of the raid was made into a film called " The Dam Busters".

The dam was rebuilt the same year, and the lake today is a major summertime recreation facility, particularly popular with Dutch campers.


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