Kleine Kinzig Dam

Kleine Kinzig Dam
(Talsperre Kleine Kinzig)
Country Germany
Location County of Freudenstadt
Coordinates 48°23′56″N 8°21′56″E / 48.39889°N 08.36556°ECoordinates: 48°23′56″N 8°21′56″E / 48.39889°N 08.36556°E
Dam and spillways
Impounds Kleine Kinzig
Height (foundation) 71 m
Height (thalweg) 70 m
Length 380 m
Elevation at crest 609 m
Width (crest) 8 m
Dam volume 1,420,000 m³
Spillway capacity 113 m³/s
Reservoir
Total capacity 14 M m³
Active capacity 13.3 M m³
Catchment area 18.6 sq km
Surface area 605.80 m


The Kleine Kinzig Dam (German: Talsperre Kleine Kinzig or Kleine-Kinzig-Talsperre) is a dam which was commissioned in 1984 in Reinerzau near Freudenstadt in Germany's Black Forest. It lies within the state of Baden-Württemberg and supplies drinking water, provides flood protection, drought protection and power generation using hydropower. It impounds the Kleine Kinzig river; the dam belongs to the Kleine Kinzig Special Purpose Association (Zweckverband Kleine Kinzig)

The reservoir seen from the north
The road across the dam

The barrier is a rockfill dam with asphalt concrete interior sealing (bituminous core). The dam is made of granite and bunter sandstone and was constructed from May 1981 to October 1982. The initial impoundment of the river lasted from 13 December 1982 to June 1984.

Overflow protection is housed in a tower with a circular spillway in the reservoir, to which a gallery is connected. The rated capacity of the power plant is 580 kW. The reservoir supplies between 3 and 8 million m³ of drinking water annually.

The reservoir is ca. 3 km long, 450 m wide and has a maximum depth of 60 m.

There is also a forebay with a 15-metre-high dam made of earth and rock from the hillside (Hangschuttmaterial).

The Kleine Kinzig dam should not be confused with the Kinzig Dam near Steinau in Hesse.

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