Schorndorf-Winterbach flood retention basin

Closing structure and bridge below the flood retention basin

The Schorndorf-Winterbach flood retention basin is a retention basin of the Rems an der Rems water association below Schorndorf and above Winterbach ( Rems-Murr district ). It is used for flood protection in the Rems Valley .

description

The first groundbreaking took place at the end of September 2002; the planned construction time was two years. The basin was put into operation on October 21, 2005. The construction cost a total of 14.3 million euros.

The Rems Water Association was founded in April 1998. All communities in the Remstal from Remseck on the Neckar to Schwäbisch Gmünd and on the upper reaches of Essingen and Mögglingen belong to it. This basin was the first of three flood retention areas built so far in the Rems Valley. It bears the number 6 among the planned retention areas. The other retention basins are the Reichenhof / Schwäbisch Gmünd flood retention basin and the Lorch-Waldhausen flood retention basin .

A bypass road runs over the barrier structure; one of the side embankments borders on federal highway 29 .

On January 13, 2011, the Rems in Schorndorf reached its historic high of 522 centimeters. The retention basin was almost completely flooded.

Data

• Usable storage space: 1.17 million m³
• Storage area: 62 ha
• Dam length: 700 m
• Back embankment: 400 m
• further secondary embankments: 800 and 2000 m
• Dam volume: 90,000 m³ (probably in total)

See also

• List of dams in Germany

Web links

Commons : Schorndorf-Winterbach flood retention basin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information from the planning engineers (PDF file; 854 kB)
• The planned flood retention area in the Rems Valley - NABU statement
• Information from the local fire brigade - disaster control in Winterbach
• rimax newsletter November 2005 - picture and report on page 6 (PDF file; 456 kB)
• Passability for animals in rivers (PDF file; 6.6 MB), State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg , p. 64f.
• Wasserverband Rems Description of the flood retention basin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New dams save the Rems Valley. ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of January 14, 2011. Accessed January 7, 2015. 
2. ↑ After the flood the tidying up follows. In: Gmünder Tagespost from January 15, 2011, p. 32.

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 23 ″  E