Wendebach Reservoir (german: Wendebachstausee) is an artificial lake with a surrounding recreation park (''Erholungspark Wendebach'') in the municipalities of

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and Friedland,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

, Germany, about 8 km south of

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

. It is a popular summer outing goal for residents and students of Göttingen. There is a swimming beach and dock. In addition, there are some park facilities such as a first-aid post, grills, a food stall and outhouses. The reservoir is used by anglers. The reservoir was created in 1973 by the damming of the Wendebach stream, a tributary of the

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, with an earth dam. Original work on this flood control project began in 1967.''Minister Sander: Wendebachstausee gerettet''
by the Göttinger Tageblatt at www.goettinger-tageblatt.de. Accessed on 29 May 2011. Its surface area is up to 8.5 hectares. In the summer of 2010, the Ministry for the Environment announced that the reservoir does not provide

flood protection Flood control methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters."Flood Control", MSN Encarta, 2008 (see below: Further reading). Flood relief methods are used to reduce the effects of flood waters or high water level ...

and that the dam is unstable and must be removed.''Wendebachstausee: FDP weist Kritik an Umweltministerium zurück''
by Lutz Knopek MP (FDP) at www.lutz-knopek.de. Accessed on 29 May 2011. Nevertheless, after political pressure, the situation was re-evaluated, and a removal of the top part of the dam has been declared adequate when combined with some re-building. As a result, the reservoir will be retained. The reworking of the dam ran from 2014 into 2015. The facility was re-opened to the public on 7 June 2016.

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Accessed 29 May 2011.
Nature trail information at www.goettingerland.de
Accessed 29 May 2011. Reservoirs in Lower Saxony Parks in Germany RWendebachReservoir {{Göttingen-geo-stub