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Rursee
The Rur Dam () is a 77.2 metre high dam located in the southwestern part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was built in 1939 and impounds the Roer to form the Roer Reservoir (''Rurstausee'' or ''Rursee'') which is 7.83 km2 in area. It lies within the districts of Aachen and Kreis Düren, Düren. History The original dam was built between 1934 and 1938 from earth and stone, with an inner lining of loam, coming into service in 1939. During the World War II, Second World War, on February 10, 1945, to impede the advance of the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group during Operation Veritable, water was released from the Gatehouse (waterworks), sluice gates; this delayed supportive action (Operation Grenade) by the Ninth United States Army, American Ninth Army for two weeks. Construction from 1955 to 1959 raised the height of the dam by 20 meters to its present height of 77 meters above the riverbed. Headwaters and tailwaters The headwaters of the Rur Reservoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Städteregion Aachen
The district of Aachen () is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Heinsberg (district), Heinsberg, Düren (district), Düren, Euskirchen (district), Euskirchen, and also the Netherlands province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg and the Belgium, Belgian province of Liège (province), Liège. Its administrative body is the ''Städteregionsparlament'' ("regional parliament"), headed by the ''Städteregionspräsident'' or "region president" (Tim Grüttemeier (Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU) since 2019). As of 21 October 2009, the ''Städteregion Aachen'' (literally: "cities region" Aachen) was formed from the former district Aachen (''Kreis Aachen'') and the city of Aachen. This is the first ''Städteregion'' that was formed in North Rhine-Westphalia. Its status is similar to that of the Hanover (district), district Hanover (''Region Hannover'') in Lower Saxony, in that the powers of the city of Aachen are slightly less than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Dieter Arntz
Hans-Dieter or, more rarely, Hans Dieter are German masculine given names, composed of Hans and Dieter. Notable people with these names include: People named Hans-Dieter * Hans-Dieter Bader (1938–2022), German operatic tenor * Hans-Dieter Beckey (1921–1992), German physicist and mass spectrometry researcher * Hans-Dieter Betz (born 1940), German experimental physicist * Hans-Dieter Beutel (born 1962), German tennis player * Hans-Dieter Brenner (born 1952), German banker * Hans-Dieter Brüchert (born 1952), German freestyle wrestler * ''Hans-Dieter Flick'', known as Hansi Flick (born 1965), German football player and manager * Hans-Dieter Frank (1919–1943), German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II * Hans-Dieter Karras (born 1959), German church musician, composer and organist * Hans-Dieter Krampe (1937–2019), East German football player * ''Hans-Dieter Kronzucker'', known as Dieter Kronzucker (born 1936), German journalist and television presenter * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehm
Lehm may refer to: * Henrik Lehm (born 1960), Danish professional football manage * Lehm., author's abbreviation for Johann Lehmann, German entomologist *Lehm, the original surname in the family of Stanislaw Lem See also *Lehmann Lehmann is a German surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 75.3% of all bearers of the surname ''Lehmann'' were residents of Germany, 6.6% of the United States, 6.3% of Switzerland, 3.2% of France, 1.7% of Australia and 1.3% of Poland. ... * Lehman (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F003832-0005, Schleiden-Eifel, Talsperre Schwammenauel
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalpark Eifel
The Eifel National Park () is the 14th national park in Germany and the first in North Rhine-Westphalia. The park was founded in 2004, and is classified as a "national park in development". Eifel National Park is part of the much larger High Fens – Eifel Nature Park, a cross-border protection between Germany and Belgium established in 1960. General The aims of the Eifel National Park accord with those set out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, IUCN. These require that at least 75 percent of the national park's area must be left to develop naturally – i.e. must not be given over to human use – within 30 years of the foundation of the park. Aims, mechanisms and executive bodies are laid down in the National Park Regulation (''Nationalpark-Verordnung'' or ''NP-VO''). The relatively young national park lies in the north of the Eifel region between Nideggen in the north, Gemünd in the south and the Belgian border in the southwest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obersee (Rur)
The Obersee near Simmerath in the borough of Aachen is the main forebay of the Rur Reservoir on the River Rur in the Eifel mountains of Germany. Its barrier is the Paulushofdamm. The reservoir, like that of the Rur Dam, belongs to the Eifel-Rur Water Company (''Wasserverband Eifel-Rur''). The reservoir provides drinking water. Location The dam system, which comprises the ''Paulushofdamm'' and ''Obersee'', lies in the Rur Eifel, a part of the North Eifel, southwest of the Kermeter, north of the Dreiborn Plateau and east of the Monschau Hedge Land near Simmerath (borough of Aachen). It is located immediately below the Urft Dam, which impounds the waters of the Urft that flow from the east to create the Urft Reservoir, and immediately above the Rur Dam which impounds the waters of the Rur to form the Rur Reservoir. While the dam belongs to the High Fens-Eifel Nature Park, the large eastern arm of the Obersee in the north lies within the Eifel National Park The Eifel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
