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The Edersee is a large reservoir created by the construction, from 1908 to 1914, of a rock and concrete dam across the Eder river, near the small town of Waldeck in northern Hesse, Germany, to generate hydropower and regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser river. It lies at the northern edge of the Kellerwald (...)

The Kellerwald is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 675 m in the western part of northern Hesse, Germany. woodland and it contains Hesse's only national park, the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park. (...)

Büraburg is a prominent hill with historic significance, overlooking the Eder river near the town of Fritzlar in northern Hesse (Germany). In 723 AD the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid – later called St. Boniface, and made Büraburg, then a fortified Frankish settlement, his temporary base (...)