Eggberg basin

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Eggberg basin
Aerial view of the Eggberg basin
Aerial view of the Eggberg basin
Eggberg basin (Baden-Württemberg)
Eggberg basin
Coordinates 47 ° 34 '51 "  N , 7 ° 57' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '51 "  N , 7 ° 57' 35"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1963-1966
Height above valley floor: 30 m
Height above foundation level : 35 m
Height of the structure crown: 701.50 m above sea level NHN
Building volume: 700,000 m³
Crown length: 1340 m
Crown width: 4.50 m
Slope slope on the air side : 1: 2.00
Slope slope on the water side : 1: 1.75
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 700.00 m above sea level NHN
Water surface 12 hadep1
Storage space 2.10 million m³
Total storage space : 2.10 million m³
Catchment area 54.47 km²

The Eggberg basin is the upper basin of the pumped storage power plant in the Säckingen cavern power plant of the Schluchsee plant . The Eggberg basin is located on the Eggberg near Bad Säckingen in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg .

In addition, the basin also has natural tributaries, which are brought in from the rivers Murg , Ibach and Dorfbach via side lines. A 12.5 km long gravity tunnel was created for this purpose.

The basin has a ring dam made of rubble with an asphalt concrete exterior seal.

The Upper Rhine dammed up by a weir serves as the lower basin . At a water level of 289.28  m above sea level. NHN in Rhein, the maximum drop height 410.72 m. At the Rhine weir there is also a run-of-river power plant , the Säckingen Rhine power plant.

literature

  • Peter Franke, Wolfgang Frey: Dams in the Federal Republic of Germany . DNK - DVWK 1987, ISBN 3-926520-00-0 .

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