The Eder barrier, which creates the Edersee.

The Edersee is a large reservoir created by the construction, from 1908 to 1914, of a dam across the Eder river, near the small town of Waldeck in northern Hessen, Germany, to generate hydropower and regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser river. A view of the eder dam, Germany. ... A view of the eder dam, Germany. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Eder is a river in Germany (ca. ... Waldeck may mean the following: Locations the County, Principality, and Republic of Waldeck or Waldeck-Pyrmont, see Waldeck (state) the City of Waldeck in Waldeck-Frankenberg District, Hesse, see Waldeck, Hesse the small municipality of Waldeck in Saale-Holzland District, Thuringia, see Waldeck, Thuringia People Princess Helena of Waldeck Jean... Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ... Weser watershed The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. ...

The dam was destroyed by special bouncing bombs dropped by British Lancaster bombers during the night of May 16/17, 1943, creating massive destruction and loss of life downstream (see Operation Chastise), including the drowning death of 749 Ukrainian POWs in a labor camp just below the dam. Through the breach in the dam, 70 meters wide and 22 meters deep, some 8,000 m³ of water per second emptied in the narrow valley below, a total of about 160 million m³. A flood wave of 6-8 meter height roared through the river valley as far as 30 km downstream, before it diminished in the widening floodplains of the lower Eder, the Fulda and the Weser. The bouncing bomb was a kind of bomb designed by Barnes Wallis of Vickers-Armstrong at Brooklands, Surrey. ... The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine World War II bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German dams on May 17, 1943 in World War II using a specially developed bouncing bomb. The attack was carried out by Royal Air Force No. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district. ...

The dam was rebuilt within months by forced labor (see Organisation Todt), and the lake today is a major summertime recreational facility. It has a capacity of 199.3 million m³, which makes it the third largest reservoir in Germany. It is a very popular summertime recreation area. Organisation Todt (OT) was a German construction and engineering group. ... To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes between 100 million and 1000 million cubic metres (108 to 109 m3). ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ...

At low water, in late summers of dry years, the remnants of three villages (Asel, Bringhausen, and Berich), along with a bridge across the original river bed, that were submerged when the lake was filled in 1914, can be seen, and descendants of people buried in the now submerged cemeteries go to visit the graves of their ancestors.