Lakes
There are five Ruhr reservoirs on the river, often used for leisure activities.
- Hengsteysee between Dortmund and Hagen, surface area: 1.36 km² height of the weir 4.5m
- Harkortsee between Hagen Herdecke and Wetter; surface area: 1.37 km², height of the weir 7.8m
- Kemnader See between Witten and Bochum; surface area: 1.25 km², height of the weir 2m
- Baldeneysee in Essen-Werden; surface area: 2.64 km², height of the weir 8.5m
- Kettwiger See in Essen-Kettwig; surface area: 0.55 km², height of the weir 6m
The adjacent industrial region adopted its name from this river..
The Ruhr is used for the preparation of drinking water and is of good quality, a fact that contains a certain linguistic irony, since the word "Ruhr" means dysentery in the German language. Its riversides are largely characterized by open spaces and parkland, which are used as recreation areas.
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Famous quotes containing the word lakes:
“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water,—so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I walk toward one of our ponds; but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base? We walk to lakes to see our serenity reflected in them; when we are not serene, we go not to them. Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk. My thoughts are murder to the State, and involuntarily go plotting against her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)