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Möhne Dam

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Möhne Dam

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Location: Möhnesee, Kreis Soest, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of Möhnesee and bridge – Möhnesee Dam loop from Günne

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2. Path Along the Möhne River – View from Kanzelbrücke loop from Sichtigvor

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3. View of Möhnesee and bridge – Path Along the Möhne River loop from Arnsberg-Neheim-Hüsten

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SunnyB

September 26, 2024

The Möhne Dam is one of the largest dams in Germany and, in terms of lake surface area, the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia (see list). In the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park, between Soest in the north and Arnsberg in the south, it has been damming the Möhne and Heve rivers to form the Möhnesee with a gravity dam since 1913. This stretches south of the Haarstrang in an east-west direction through the municipality named after it and has a balancing pond for the hydroelectric power station below the dam. The Ruhr Association, as the current owner and operator of the dam, has seven other dams in the Sauerland, which are mainly used to stabilize and increase the low water flow of the Ruhr.

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Aktivix 🌐

October 14, 2025

The dam has a capacity of 130 million m³. The dam wall is 650 m long, 40.3 m high, and has a base width of 34.2 m. It serves to dam up the water in the valleys of the Möhne and Heve rivers.

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Location: Möhnesee, Kreis Soest, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of Möhnesee and bridge – Möhnesee Dam loop from Günne

2. Path Along the Möhne River – View from Kanzelbrücke loop from Sichtigvor

3. View of Möhnesee and bridge – Path Along the Möhne River loop from Arnsberg-Neheim-Hüsten

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