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The Oberwartha reservoir was created by the largest earthen dam in Europe at the time when the Silbertal valley was closed off. It is located near Oberwarth on the outskirts of Dresden. It feeds the Niederwartha pumped storage plant

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sylvio Dittrich

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