Rappbode Dam

The Rappbode Dam is the largest dam in the resin and at the same time the highest one in Germany. It belongs together with further dams and retention basins to the flood protection system in the east resin.clarifyme|What the heck is a resin???

Single dams

* the transition barrier Königshütte: It accumulates the water of the Bode around it in a transition gallery into the Rappbodetalsperre to partly derive (drinking water treatment). The other part flows with the Bode over carrot country directly into the basin that turningford ago barrier.
* Hasselvorsperre and Rappbodevorsperre as Pre dams of the Hassel and/or Rappbode. They serve for the rubble and mud back attitude as well as the nutrient back attitude.
* Mandelholztalsperre as predam of the cold Bode, which rise at the foot of Brocken Mountain. Rubble and nutrient back attitude before the main barrier.
* The dam Wendefurth is downstream. It serves the flood protection and regards the store of water as the pumped storage power station Wendefurth

History

The first considerations to the building of flood protection walls became after devastating floods at the beginning 20. Century calm. One planned several concrete dams in the supplies of the Bode. First planning referred to an individual concrete dam, which one would have had to sacrifice however several localities. The actual project was finished 1938 and did without the flooding of localities, but several concrete dams were planned. With the construction work at the Rappbode dam 1938 could be begun. 1942 was already adjusted the construction measures for war reasons. In the GDR the project was again taken up and extended by drinking water treatment. The original plant planning remained. The technology was adapted. The grundsteinlegung took place on 1 September 1952, on 7 October 1959 the dam of their regulation was handed over. The dam was reconstructed in the years 2000 to 2003. The national emblems of the GDR at the inscriptions of the tunnel exit of the dam route were removed to the concrete dam. The two inscriptions on the left and on the right loud: ' the Rappbode dam - a large's building of socialism. Grundsteinlegung on the day of the peace 1952 - socialist production conditions of our worker and farmer state hand /Die large achievements of the workers, technicians and engineers taken part in the building were the bases of the emergence of this work/acknowledgment and thanks to the designers over at the 7.October 1959 from cause of the 10. anniversary of the German Democratic Republic as well as.

Main Dam

The barrier is a straight gravity dam, which locks the river off by its dead weight. It was manufactured in several segments (fields) and finished 1959. Them are 106 m high and 415 m long. In the last years (2002 ago) the mauerkrone was renewed. The roadway and the concrete had weathered and to the loads of traffic had not any longer been up to. The accumulated water is above all a drinking water reserve, to which those can fall back east the resin of convenient cities. The pressure pipes go to ashtray lives, half, Berne castle, resounds (Saale) and even Leipzig. The water quality is expressed good thereby, the water hardness lies on the average with 3° of German hardness. Thus the water is ideal for the employment in steam generation and washing plants. The artificial lake contributes also in small measure to the power generation.

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