Everything about The Eder totally explained
The
Eder is a 177 km long
river in
Germany, left tributary of the
Fulda River. It was first mentioned by the Roman historian
Tacitus as the
Adrana in the territory of the
Chatti.
The river rises from the
Ederkopf mountain in western
North Rhine-Westphalia near the springs of the
Lahn and
Sieg rivers. Unlike the Lahn and Sieg, that are both tributaries of the
Rhine, the Eder flows east and north and into the river Fulda at
Edermünde, south of
Kassel. At
Hannoversch Münden, the Fulda joins with the
Werra to form the
Weser river which flows into the
North Sea north of
Bremen. Towns along the course of the Eder include
Battenberg,
Frankenberg,
Waldeck and
Fritzlar.
A rock-and-concrete dam (47 m high, 400 m long) completed in 1914 near the small town of Waldeck created the large
Edersee reservoir, which is 27 km long and has a holding caopacity of 200 million m³ of water. It is used to generate hydro-electricity and to regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser river.
The dam was destroyed by British
Avro Lancaster bombers of the
RAF's
617 Squadron on
17 May 1943 (
Operation Chastise). The bombers were equipped with special
Barnes Wallis bouncing bombs. On the same night, the nearby
Möhne Reservoir dam was also attacked, causing enormous destruction and loss of life downstream (the great majority of drowning victims were Ukrainian
POWs in a labor camp just below the dam). The story of the raid was made into a film called
The Dam Busters.
The dam was rebuilt the same year, and the lake today is a major summertime recreation facility, particularly popular with Dutch campers.
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