The dam is a rainwater retention basin. This serves to protect the downstream areas. A beautiful hydraulic engineering structure (except for the little house and the rubbish, which the builder cannot do anything about). And useful at that.
Update October 2022: Also wonderful here in autumn. The mowed meadow of the dam with the autumn trees and below you the rushing brook.
But opinions seem to differ on that.

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Kauai

January 19, 2020

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This ugly and high dam is where the beautifully meandering Otterbach flows into the forest.

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Bettina

September 30, 2020

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But what I found a lot worse (than that ugly dam wall) were the many wild garbage dumps that are along the way. Something should be done urgently!

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Location: Jockgrim, Germersheim, Südpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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