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The Sosa Dam is a dam in the Free State of Saxony. It serves to supply drinking water to the western Ore Mountains and to provide flood protection. The dam was built between 1949 and 1952 in the Höllengrund valley south of Sosa, which has been part of the town of Eibenstock since 2011, in the Ore Mountains, and was finally put into operation in 1952.

a great corner, always worth a trip

One of the most beautiful waterfalls I know 😍. If you continue the hike to the right, you can see the waterfall from above 😊.

The largest waterfall in Saxony and one of the highest German waterfalls outside the Alps is located in the immediate vicinity of Blauenthal. This former site of a flour and board mill was bought by Andreas Blau around 1530 and converted into a hammer mill. After the First World War, the owner of the paper factory had a new ditch dug above a steep rock face in order to use the water to drive his turbines. On Sundays and public holidays, the machines stood still and the water rushed down into the valley.

☆ The wall is 50 meters high.

The Talperre Sosa barrier wall is the last quarry stone wall built in Germany. The quarry stone masonry of the dam body is made of granite. This granite was quarried in the nearby quarry. The Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn developed a special mixed binder "Sosa - special binder" for the construction of the dam wall. Source: http://www.sosa-online.de/Talsperre.html

It can make you dizzy, but great view.

The dam is the last quarry stone wall built in Germany. The (quarried) stones required for the dam wall of the Sosa dam (construction period 1949 - 1952) came from the quarry in Sosa (today the site of the charcoal charcoal snack bar and show charcoal factory). There had been plans for dams in the Zwickauer Mulde and Kleine Bockau areas since 1908. In September 1915 it was announced in the Schönheider Wochenblatt by the Schwarzenberg Royal Authority that preparatory work was being carried out for the dams on the Zwickauer Mulde near Eibenstock and on the Kleine Bockau near Sosa. The work would affect the Neidhardtsthal, Muldenhammer, Hundshübel, Eibenstock, Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer, UnterSupportengrün, Sosa, Blauenthal and Wildenthal corridors. The dam plans before the First World War came from the city of Zwickau and were the subject of discussions by the Saxon state parliament on several occasions. The war and the subsequent period of inflation initially prevented these plans from continuing. In 1924, plans were resumed to build a series of dams in the Erzgebirge and Vogtland. However, planning for Sosa was suspended. The construction is still considered technically remarkable today given the simple means used.