The Hornberg Basin (german: Hornbergbecken) is the upper
reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation.
Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contr ...
of the
Wehr Wehr may refer to:
* WEHR, a former radio station owned by Penn State University
* Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
* Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Wehr, a village in Selfkant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
People with the surname
*Dick ...
power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid.
Many ...
, whose lower reservoir is impounded by the
Wehra Dam. It lies near
Herrischried
Herrischried is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe af ...
(Hornberg) and near the town of
Wehr Wehr may refer to:
* WEHR, a former radio station owned by Penn State University
* Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
* Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Wehr, a village in Selfkant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
People with the surname
*Dick ...
in the county of
Waldshut in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
on the dome of the
Langer Eck, the highest hill in the
Hotzenwald
The Hotzenwald is a landscape and region in the Southern Black Forest in the county of Waldshut. Its headquarters was the ''Waldvogteiamt''.
Location and topography
The region of Hotzenwald is not precisely defined in the records. In a narro ...
. It was opened in 1975, is only used to generate pumped-storage power and is operated by the
Schluchseewerk
The Schluchseewerk AG is the operator of five pumped storage hydroelectric power stations in the Southern Black Forest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Its head office is in Laufenburg (Baden).
The shareholders of the Schluchseewerk are ...
.
An addition to the existing Hornberg Basin was planned as part of building the
Atdorf Power Station, but the effort was cancelled in 2017 by the local operating company
EnBW
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, or simply EnBW, is a publicly-traded energy company headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany. As its name indicates, EnBW is based in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
History Foundation and development
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.
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
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. The reservoirs are often separately given names ending in ''-se ...
References
Literature
*Festschrift ''Hornbergstufe der Schluchseewerk AG''. November 1976
*Peter Franke, Wolfgang Frey: ''Talsperren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland''. DNK – DVWK 1987, .
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Lakes of the Black Forest
Reservoirs in Baden-Württemberg
Dams in Baden-Württemberg
Waldshut (district)
Baden
1970s architecture
Hotzenwald
Schluchseewerk