Oberdieten quarry

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Silbersee as a result of blasting work, the wind turbines can be seen in the background.

The quarry Upper Dieten is a disused diabase - quarries in Upper Dieten . Diabase was mined for the first time at the beginning of the 20th century, and the quarry was closed in 1997.

Reuse

Construction of the third wind turbine, on the right one of the earlier wind turbines

Today there are two lakes created by blasting , the Silbersee and another lake. The wider lake has neither an outflow nor an inflow. It is about 70 meters deep and is filled in. The lake is 60 meters long and is shrinking.

Landfill

The quarry is used today by the Bergisch-Westerwälder Hartsteinwerke, an operating company of the Basalt Union , as a landfill .

Airfield

On September 1, 2009, the Breidenbach community left the area to the Bad Laasphe eV hang- gliding and paragliding association as a flight area.

Wind turbines

In 1995 three wind turbines were built on the site. Two of them were dismantled in 2011/2013 and each replaced by a large 3-megawatt system with a hub height of 135 m as part of repowering . Both new systems produce an estimated 14 million kWh annually, which can supply around 3000 households. They are of the Enercon E-101 type . The systems are operated by the Strauch & Strauch company.

In August 2016, plans were announced that Strauch & Strauch would like to repower the small facility.

Web links

  • picsandstories.com : History of the quarry and pictures from several decades, accessed on September 7, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessen-Extra Tour Boxbachpfad , accessed on May 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ Landfill number 12 on the map page no longer available , search in web archives: the production facilities of the Bergisch-Westerwälder Hartsteinwerke , accessed on September 7, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.basalt-ag.de
  3. ↑ Hang-glider and paraglider pilots Bad Laasphe eV: Our new flight area in Achenbach: Achenbach-Oberdieten quarry
  4. ↑ Rotor blades up to 50 meters long. derWesten , September 6, 2011, accessed May 31, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Oberdieten wind farm. proplanta.de, accessed on May 31, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Wind power: Breidenbach has enough. Mittelhessen.de, accessed on September 1, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 32 ″  E