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Eiserbachdamm

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Städteregion Aachen

Simmerath

Eiserbachdamm

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Eiserbachdamm

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Location: Simmerath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of the Rursee – Rursee and Rurberg loop from Rurberg

15.3km

04:22

330m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. View of Rursee – Rursee and Rurberg loop from Rurberg

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06:55

380m

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3. Panoramic View of Rursee – View of the Rursee loop from Rurberg

6.55km

01:50

120m

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Gerda

June 10, 2023

Beautiful outdoor pool on Eiserbachdamm

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Nieres

April 13, 2023

The dam is the Eiserbachdamm, completed in 1959, which was built directly south of Rurberg. The dam is 21 m high, 235 m long and 7.5 m wide at the crown. When the water level of the Rur reservoir is high, it is also dammed up on its air side.
The reservoir is the roughly 3-hectare fore-basin Eiserbach. At Stauziel the water surface is 279.6 m above sea level. NN (normal traffic jam). The total storage space is 0.35 million m³. The basin has a small overflow funnel for flood relief.
The water of the Eiserbach, which flows mainly from the west and is 3.1 km long, is dammed up in the basin, which also forms the outflow of the reservoir; However, when the water level of the Rur reservoir is high, the rest of the creek below the dam, which is about 350 m long, is flooded. Almost 400 m above where the Eiserbach flows into the reservoir, the 1 km long Kleinenbach, coming from the north-west, flows into the reservoir south-southwest of Rurberg.
The Eiserbach fore-pool is designed to form the Eiserbachsee natural open-air pool.
excerpt from
wikiwand.com/de/Stauanlage_Eiserbach

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Castro und Thorsten

April 1, 2024

From the dam a beautiful view over the Rursee

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Elevation 320 m

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Location: Simmerath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of the Rursee – Rursee and Rurberg loop from Rurberg

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