Kurit dam
The Kurit Dam (Bend-e-Kurit, also: Korit) is an old dam in Iran that was built around 1350.
The masonry arch dam is located at the Tabas oasis in the Yazd province , south of Mashhad and 620 km southeast of Tehran . It was built next to several other dams during the Ilchane Mongol rule. With a height of 58 to 64 m, it was the highest on earth until around 1904, i.e. for around 550 years. Around 1850 it was increased again by 4 to 5 m to 65 m. It has a length of 27 to 28 meters. The base of the wall was repaired with bricks in 1865.
The reservoir is now completely silted up, the wall partially broken and no longer usable today.
literature
- Henri Goblot: Du nouveau sur les barrages iraniens de l'époque mongole (première moitié du XIVe siècle). In: Arts et manufactures. No. 239, April 1973, ISSN 0004-3990 , pp. 14-20
- Henri Goblot: Kebar en Iran, sans doute le plus ancien des barrages-voûtes (1300 environ). In: Arts et manufactures. No. 154, June 1965, pp. 43-49.
- Fritz Hartung, Gholam R. Kuros: Historical dams in Iran. In: Günther Garbrecht (editor): Historical dams. Volume 1. Published by: German Association for Water Management and Cultural Building eV - DVWK. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-87919-145-X , pp. 221-274, here p. 266, illus. P. 241.
- Niklaus J. Schnitter: The history of the development of the arch dam. In: Günther Garbrecht (editor): Historical dams. Volume 1. Published by: German Association for Water Management and Cultural Building eV - DVWK. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-87919-145-X , pp. 75-95, here p. 79.
- Hans Straub : The history of civil engineering. An overview from antiquity to modern times. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7643-2441-4 , p. 372.
See also
Web links
- Kurit dam. In: Structurae
- In this Norwegian presentation (NTNU) you can find a picture of the Kurit dam on page 8 (PDF file; 7.74 MB)
- Kurit Sanaat (website under construction)
Coordinates: 33 ° 26 ′ 11 " N , 57 ° 14 ′ 32" E