Švihov dam
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 ′ 31 ″ N , 15 ° 5 ′ 21 ″ E | ||||||||
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| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 253 m | ||||||||
| Water surface | 14.3 km² | ||||||||
| Storage space | 266 600 000 m³ | ||||||||
The Švihov dam is a drinking water dam on the Želivka in the Czech Republic . The dam is located south of the town of Zruč nad Sázavou near the village of Nesměřice.
The dam is the third largest in the Vltava catchment area after Lipno and Orlík and serves to supply the greater Prague area with drinking water . It has a capacity of 266.6 million cubic meters and a water surface of 14.3 square kilometers. The altitude is 253 m above sea level. NN. The reservoir extends to Koberovice and includes the narrow valleys of the Želivka and some tributaries.
The construction of the dam goes back to a resolution of 1963. In 1974 the town Dolní Kralovice was completed and demolished , which was flooded with the reservoir a year later along with Horní Kralovice, Libčice and other localities. In 1976 Zahrádka was also dissolved. At the same time, the section from Trhový Štěpánov to Dolní Kralovice of the local railway Beneschau – Wlaschim – Unter Kralowitz , which had existed since 1902, was closed.
In the municipality of Loket , between Brzotice and Bezděkov, a 13-meter-wide and 306-meter-long road bridge on State Road 150 crosses the reservoir. The bridge has a pillar height of 65 meters.
The unfinished motorway bridge over the Sedlecký potok from the 1940s, which was to become part of the motorway from Prague to Jihlava and now only protrudes slightly above the water level, is located in the reservoir northwest of Borovsko in the Bernatice municipality . It is known as the Borovsko Bridge and popularly known as the Hitler Bridge . Construction began in 1939 and was abandoned after the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, but resumed from 1948 to 1950. It was removed, but never completed on the south side after the construction of the motorway was stopped. The reinforced concrete arch bridge was around 100 m high. After the decision to build the dam, the decision was made to build a new bridge.
During the continuation of the construction of the D 1 motorway between Bernatice and Hulice, the original route to the west had to be deviated from, and a new bridge was built in the village of Sedlice in 1969 over the Sedlecký potok, which leads over the later flooded side valley. At Píšť a further bridge of the D 1 was built over the reservoir from 1972–1979, which was built over a bridge built until 1950 during the unfinished motorway construction. A local road leads over the original bridge.
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- ↑ Borovsko Bridge , dangerous roads