Steina Dam

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The Steinatalsperre in the resin is from an existing dam, waterworks and reservoir dam near the village of Steina and is part of the unincorporated area of the county resin Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony.

The dam was inaugurated on 19 November 1954 as a retention basin since 1958 and serves as a water barrier. Your total of 8.5 m high dam dammed the Steina on the Steinastaubecken. It is used for drinking water supply of the towns Bad Sachsa, Osterhagen, Nüxei and Steina, so it is with the surrounding woods in a water protection area.

Geographical location

The Steinatalsperre is located in the Upper Harz Harz nature park. It extends about 2.2 km north- northwest of Steina, a district of Bad Sachsa the gel density inflow Steina (also called Steinaer Bach) - in Steinatal - and belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Elbe. Northeast rises as West foothills of the nettle head ( 581.6 m above sea level. NN ) of Nesseltalskopf (about 580 m above sea level. NN ), southeast of the hives as Südsüdwestausläufer head of Steintalskopf (about 480 m above sea level. NN ) and west of the mountain hut (509 m above sea level. NN ).

Staumdamm

The Erdschüttdamm was built between 1950 and 1954. He is 8 m above the valley floor and 8.5 m above the foundation level high. The building crown is at about 377.5 m above sea level. NN, it is about 80 m long, at its crown about 4 m at its base and about 40 m wide. The building volume contains approximately 15,000 m³ of earth material.

Waterworks

Approximately 550 m below the Staumdamms standing near the forest hotel in Steinatal the water plant, which began operating in 1958. It supplies drinking water of Bad Sachsa, Osterhagen, Nüxei and Steina.

Reservoir

The Steinastaubecken extends north-northwest south-southeast - direction at about 300 m in length and has a maximum of about 60 m wide. It has approximately 70,000 cubic meters (70 million L) of storage space and 75,000 cubic meters (75 million L) of total storage space. Its water level is at about 375 m above sea level. NN.

Driving and Hiking

To Steinatalsperre to get from Steina on the Steinatalstraße. The hotel faces the forest hotel in Steinatal at the end of this dead-end parking Steinatal you walk about 550 m to the dam. From there, you can, for example, to Bad Sachsa, Bad Lauterberg or Ravens mountain hike.

The Steinatalsperre is included as No. 43 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin. The stamp station is located at the mouth of Nesseltals in the Steinatal, a few meters to the southeast and thus below the dam on a small picnic area ( approximately 375 m above sea level, . ⊙ 51.61131944444410.507583333333 ).