These are dams and reservoirs in Germany. The German word Talsperre (literally: valley barrier) may mean dam, but it is often used to include the associated reservoir as well. The reservoirs are often separately given names ending in -see, -teich or -speicher which are the German words for "lake", "pond" and "reservoir", but in this case all may also be translated as "reservoir". The more specific word for the actual dam is Staumauer and for the lake is Stausee.
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Brandenburg
Hesse
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Thuringia
In Thuringia there are 171 reservoirs. The biggest of them are:
- Bleiloch Dam (biggest reservoir in Germany, volume: ~215 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Saale
- Deesbach Forebay (height 42.5 m; volume ~3.2 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Lichte
- Haselbach Reservoir (~25 million m<sup>3</sup>), flooded opencast mining area
- Hohenwarte Reservoir (volume: ~182 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Saale
- Leibis-Lichte Dam (height 102.5 m; volume ~32,4 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Lichte
- Neustadt Dam - Thuringia's oldest dam
- Schmalwasser Dam (~21,2 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Schmalwasser
- Schönbrunn Dam (~23,2 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Schleuse
- Zeulenroda Dam (~30,4 million m<sup>3</sup>), river Weida
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