Saale cascade
The Saale Cascade consists of five dams and hydroelectric power stations on the upper Saale . They were built in the 1930s and 1940s to allow navigation on the Elbe with additional water even when the water level was low. Today they are mainly used to generate energy, but also for flood protection and local recreation. The Saale Cascade is about 80 kilometers long and has a height difference of 170 meters.
Dams and power plants
There are four pumped storage power plants (PSP) here; In addition, each dam also serves as a storage power plant . The entire system belongs to Vattenfall Europe Generation AG and is the second largest group of hydropower plants in Germany after the Schluchseewerk . In detail, there are five Saale barrages:
- Bleilochtalsperre ( upper basin of the PSW Bleiloch)
- Burgkhammer dam ( lower basin of the PSW Bleiloch) and run-of-river power plant with 2 MW
- Walsburg dam (lower basin of PSW Wisenta)
- Hohenwartetalsperre (upper basin of the Hohenwarte I PSW)
- Eichicht dam (lower basin of the Hohenwarte I and II PSW) and run-of-river power plant with 3 MW
It also includes:
- Wisenta dam on the Wisenta (upper basin of the PSW Wisenta)
- Upper basin Hohenwarte II, an artificial basin without a natural inflow (upper basin of PSW Hohenwarte II)
The four pumped storage plants have the following data:
- Bleiloch pumped storage plant : two Francis turbines , 80 MW, max. Fall height 58.5 m, built in 1932
- Hohenwarte I pumped storage plant : two Francis turbines, 63 MW, max. Fall height 67.9 m, built 1936–1942, completed in 1959
- Hohenwarte II pumped storage plant: eight Francis turbines, max. Head 314.5 m, 320 MW, built 1956–1963, completed in 1966
- Wisenta pumped storage plant : 3.8 MW, built 1933–1934
See also
Web links
- Saalekaskade on the Vattenfall Europe website
- Saalekaskade on Urlaubsland-Thueringen.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 43.5 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 38.5" E