Möhne Reservoir
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The Möhne Reservoir, or Moehne Reservoir, is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, some 45 km east of Dortmund, Germany. The lake is formed by the damming of two rivers, the Möhne and Heve, an
The dam of the reservoir
The breached Möhne Dam after the bombing
The dam in overflow
Kanzelbrücke at the beginning of the reservoir
Sorpe Dam
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The Sorpe Dam is a dam on the Sorpe river, near the small town of Sundern in the district of Hochsauerland in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Möhne Reservoir
…to a standstill", due to the "electrical installations being soaked and muddied." Three other reservoirs were still intact, though the largest, the Sorpe Dam, had a hole above the water line. Another destroyed dam, the Edersee Dam, "had nothing to do with the supply of water to the Ruhr." The Möhne Dam was…
Aerial photograph of Sorpesee; the Sorpe dam is in the very background
View of the dam from one of the campsites on the West bank
View of the dam from the West bank