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Plattensee Reservoir

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Landkreis Emmendingen

Simonswald

Plattensee Reservoir

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Plattensee Reservoir

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Location: Simonswald, Landkreis Emmendingen, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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2. Hirschbach Waterfall – Vogesenkapelle loop from St. Peter

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3. Zweribach Stream – Zweribach Waterfalls loop from Gütenbach

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Sebastian Kowalke

February 23, 2018

Lake Balaton is a small reservoir in which the water of the dwarf brook is dammed up. The lake is used as the upper reservoir of a hydroelectric power station further down in the valley.

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olaf1618

April 17, 2018

Yes, extremely organic. sustainable .. but the development is extremely exciting: The Gutacher company Gütermann, which had been producing yarns industrially in the first half of the 20th century (weaving, spinning, dyeing, I attach a link below ..), has both Lake stuck in a depression, as well as the power plant, which can be seen from the street, built.
A manager had the idea of using hydropower with enormous pressure from the height of the candle foothills near St. Peter, height difference approx. 500m, and thus generating the electricity required for production. So it was created at the level of the Lake Balaton simply by damming, and high pressure steel pipes were laid down into the Simonswälder Tal (near the Obersimonswald-Engel bus stop). A hydroelectric power plant was built there (looks a bit like a Roman villa (link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweribachwerk#/media/File:Zweribachwerk_(1).jpg) that was also a pumping power plant, that is at night and at the weekend, the lake was to be replenished by pumping power, electricity was generated during the day, but the amount of water in the inflow area of Lake Balaton had been calculated far too low, pumping was not necessary at all and, as far as I know, was never really carried out A quantity of electricity sufficient to supply several hundred households, and since there is no pumping, additional electricity is saved, i.e. BioBio ...
Who wants to know more:
To the power plant: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweribachwerk
About the Gütermann company: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gütermann
It is worth reading !! And a tour of the Zweribach Falls is the highlight in the Simonswälder Tal anyway.

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Tschabau 💙🤍

July 25, 2021

Currently, Lake Balaton is obviously without a lake

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Location: Simonswald, Landkreis Emmendingen, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Plattensee Reservoir

1. Hirschbach Waterfall – Vogesen Chapel loop from St. Peter

2. Hirschbach Waterfall – Vogesenkapelle loop from St. Peter

3. Zweribach Stream – Zweribach Waterfalls loop from Gütenbach

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