The Edersee, also known as the Ederstausee, is an 11.8 km (4.6 sq mi) reservoir in Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse , Germany holding back an estimated 199.3 million m (7.04 billion cu ft). It has the second-largest area (behind the Forggensee ), and the third-largest volume (behind the Bleilochstausee and Rurstausee ), of all reservoirs in Germany. It is on the chief western tributary of the Fulda , the Eder , behind the 48 m-high (157 ft) Edersee Dam near the town of Waldeck in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district of North Hesse .
6-549: The dam and reservoir are owned by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, whose Hann. Münden Waterways and Shipping office is locally responsible. The primary purpose is provision of water for the federal waterways, the Oberweser and Mittellandkanal . The dam also protects downstream residents from small and medium floods, generates electrical energy and the lake is used for sports and leisure. Being in
12-605: A steam-pump-powered paddlewheel boat, probably pedal-driven in 1704, and as a demonstration used it to navigate down the Fulda River from Kassel to Münden in 1707. Hann. Münden was the site of the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry : the city's botanical gardens with many different trees were primarily established for this academy. Later the academy was merged into the University of Göttingen , moving to
18-587: A winding road. The lake stretches from the joining of a tributary, short of Herzhausen , in the west to the dam aforesaid. Beyond an intermittent band of tree-lined fields to the south associated with two shoreside villages is the "Ederhöhen", very high, often steep, wooded foothills to the Kellerwald mountain range – together they form a protected upland forest roughly congruent with the Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee . This
24-714: Is the largest lake in Hesse. It takes in four bends, sharp meanders, to its south side. Hann. M%C3%BCnden Hann. Münden (short for Hannoversch Münden ) is a town in Lower Saxony , Germany. Münden lies in the district of Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, which join to form the Weser . It has about 24,000 inhabitants (2013). It is famous for its half-timbered houses, some of them more than 600 years old. There are 10 million cobblestones around
30-695: The Naturpark Kellerwald-Edersee and the Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee and overlooked by Waldeck Castle, it and its surroundings constitute a large recreational/touristic area, economically as well as a reserve for mature trees, woodland flowers, fungi and lichens, wildflowers, animals such as deer, foxes, badgers and occasionally the Eurasian wolf . This fairly brief central portion of the Eder has its dam near Hemfurth-Edersee, about 35 km (22 mi) south-west of Kassel , linked by
36-443: The town. The place is first mentioned in the deeds of donation of Gimundi to the abbey of Fulda , in 802. The town's name means "confluence" in old German; the prefix Hannoversch , or " Hanoverian ", was added in the 19th century to help distinguish the town from its similarly-named Prussian neighbour, Minden . City rights might have been granted during the latter half of the 12th century. The French inventor Denis Papin built
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