Urft in the district of Euskirchen to create the Urft Reservoir (Urftstausee), 2.16 km2 in area. The reservoir is also called the Urftsee (Lake Urft)...
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Kall, North Rhine-Westphalia (redirect from Urft)
Scheven, Sistig, Sötenich, Steinfeld, Steinfelderheistert, Straßbüsch, Urft, Wahlen, Wallenthal, Wallenthalerhöhe, and Kall itself. Wahl des/der Bürgermeisters/in...
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the village of Urft in the municipality of Kall. The Urft rises in the North Eifel region of the Eifel Mountains. The name of the Urft is derived from...
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bordered to the northwest by the Rur Reservoir and includes the neighbouring Urft Reservoir, the former Vogelsang Military Training Area, but not the Nazi...
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covered the smaller region roughly around the sources of the rivers Ahr, Kyll, Urft and Erft. Its name was more recently transferred to the entire region. The...
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advanced, the Germans opened the sluice gates of upstream dams (Rur Dam and Urft Dam). This stopped the Americans from crossing as planned. It had been anticipated...
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to the Roer in 2004. Ellebach Inde Kall Malefinkbach Merzbach Wurm Olef Urft During the Middle Ages the valley of the Roer lay mostly within the Duchy...
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so-called Dreiborn Plateau. In the north and east it was bounded by the Urft Reservoir. The training area had an area of around 45 km2 and since 1 January...
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other, smaller, structures: the Paulushof Dam holding the Obersee and the Urft Dam holding the Urftstausee. If the floodgates were opened, the resulting...
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located immediately below the Urft Dam, which impounds the waters of the Urft that flow from the east to create the Urft Reservoir, and immediately above...
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Germany. It is 27.9 kilometres (17.3 mi) long and a left-hand tributary of the Urft. It flows through the Eifel Mountains in the western part of the Germany...
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of U-boat pens, December 1944 – April 1945 8 December, 11 December 1944 Urft Dam, (30 mi (48 km) southwest of Cologne) was attacked to prevent it being...
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by destroying the floodgates of two dams on the upper Roer (Rur Dam and Urft Dam). During the two weeks that the little river was flooded, Hitler did...
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German government did not set out building large dams such as the prewar Urft, Mohne, and Eder dams to expand hydropower: they mostly wanted to reduce...
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1516–1525 late Gothic hall church, König organ from 1770) From 1900 to 1905 the Urft Dam was built as the largest dam in Europe at the time. Today it is part...
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Eifel hills, approx. 20 km south-west of Euskirchen. The rivers Erft and Urft have their source in the municipality. The district of the city Netterheim...
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flooding by doing the same to dams further upstream on the Roer and the Urft. The river rose at two feet an hour and the valley downstream to the Maas...
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range near Jelenia Góra. Then the largest in Europe, surpassing even the Urft Dam built in 1905, it created a reservoir of about 4 km (2.5 mi) length....
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than the Rhine, due to the flooding threat posed by Roer dams upstream. The Urft Dam (Urfttalsperre) held 161,000,000 cubic feet (4,550,000 m3) of water,...
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– Köln Süd – Erftstadt – Weilerswist – Euskirchen – Mechernich – Kall – Urft (Steinfeld) – Nettersheim – Blankenheim (Wald) – Schmidtheim – Dahlem (Eifel)...
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valley of the Reifferscheider Bach via Steinfeld into the valley of the River Urft. Roland Günter (1989), Kunstreiseführer Rheinland (in German), Bintlach:...
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well known Kneipp resort. In Gemünd the Olef has its mouth on the River Urft; hence the origin of the name of the village (Mund = [river] mouth). On the...
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between 500 and 692 m above sea level (NN) lie the sources of the Olef, Urft and Kyll. Its highest elevation is on the Weißer Stein (692 m; with ski slopes)...
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into the Urft tributary, the Olef, at about 403 m. The catchment of the Platißbachs is 38.6 km2 (14.9 sq mi) in area and drains over the Olef, Urft, Rur,...
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pre-basin of the Rur Dam), and in the south by the Urft Reservoir (at around 322.5 m above NN) and thus the Urft valley. In the southwest the Kermeter transitions...
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Aqueduct. The aqueduct began at a spring in the area of Nettersheim in the Urft river valley. It then travelled along the valley to Kall, where it had to...
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Reservoir Olef Dam Perlenbach Dam Rur Dam Sorpe Reservoir Steinbachtal Dam Urft Dam Wahnbach Dam Wehebach Dam Wupper Dam Altenberg Reservoir Bautzen Reservoir...
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Kuttenbach is a 5.3 kilometre-long, orographically left-hand tributary of the Urft in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the municipality of Kall. The Kuttenbach...
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Vogelsang with the valleys of the Neffgesbach and Morsbach, in the north by the Urft valley and the Urftsee lake, which separates the Dreiborn Plateau from the...
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Böttenbach, which rise north-northwest and north of the village and flow into the Urft Reservoir to the west, and the Eselsbach, which rises east of the settlement...
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