Almond wood dam

Almond wood dam
Location: Harz district Tributaries: Cold Bode Larger places nearby: Hasselfelde and Elbingerode
Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 44 ′ 44 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 44 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 11"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time:	1952-1957
Height above valley floor:	26 m
Height above foundation level :	28.40 m
Building volume:	197,000 m³
Crown length:	224 m
Data on the reservoir
Storage space	4.47 million m³

The Mandelholztalsperre (also: Hochwasserschutzbecken Kalte Bode ) is a flood retention basin and is located between the towns of Elend and Königshütte in the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz Mountains . It dams the Kalte Bode at high tide.

The dam was built between 1952 and 1957 and consists of an earth dam with an integrated inspection corridor made of concrete. In order to protect the dam crest from flooding, an overflow was installed to the south of it as a flood relief. The last time the dam overflowed was during the floods in 1994.

The height of the dam is given inconsistently with 26 m (probably above the valley floor) or 28.4 m (probably above the foundation floor).

At Almondwood an der Wormke (in the rear area of ​​the Almondwood Dam) there are also the remains of an older dam, the Almond Woods Pond , which supplied the Mandelholzer Hütte with water from 1612. The flood disaster of 1855 destroyed the dam and it was never rebuilt.

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  Southeast bank

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  View from the west bank

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  On the dam crest

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  Dam from the south

See also

• Dams in the Harz Mountains
• List of dams in Germany
• List of bodies of water in Saxony-Anhalt

Web links

• Saxony-Anhalt dam operation

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