The best traffic-free bike rides around Schlichemtalsperre

The TK Elevator Test Tower (own spelling: TK Elevator Testturm Rottweil) in Rottweil is a 246-meter-high elevator test tower for express and high-speed elevators. Built from 2014 to 2017 by Thyssenkrupp Elevator, the tower offers Germany's highest visitor platform at 232 meters and is the world's second-highest test tower for elevator systems. Including the underground levels, which are also used as a test environment for the elevator shafts, the shaft has a total length of 275.5 meters. The tower has won numerous architectural, engineering, and design awards and offers several unique features. For example, it is the world's first structure that can be set into oscillation by a vibrating pendulum inside the tower shaft. This way, real wind loads are simulated. The shaft is encased in a special glass fiber textile along a spiral tube, which defines the tower's actual external shape. The tower is thus also the world's tallest textile-clad building. Originally, it was planned to build the tower in the Neckartal industrial area.[5] However, it proved unsuitable due to the results of geological surveys and trial drillings on July 17, 2013. Instead, on September 11, 2013, Thyssenkrupp proposed the Berner Feld industrial area above the valley as an alternative location, about one and a half kilometers north of Rottweil's town center. The Neuhausen production site had not been a possible location due to its proximity to Stuttgart Airport. In addition to the not-too-great distance of about 100 kilometers from the production site, the large number of students and skilled workers in the region, and not least the support from the city of Rottweil, spoke in favor of the chosen location. ...... Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK-Elevator-Testturm#Nutzung

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The Schlichemtalsperre (also known as Schömberger Stausee, mostly just called Stausee locally) east of Schömberg in Baden-Württemberg dams the Schlichem, a tributary of the Neckar coming from the Swabian Jura. The 90.6 ha Schömberger Stausee mit Palmbühl landscape protection area surrounds the Schlichemtalsperre. The approximately 1.35 km long and initially narrow reservoir, widening to about 175 m towards the end, with an area of 10.4 ha at 643.8 m above sea level (NHN), begins at the hamlet of Untere Säge and extends to the old town center of Schömberg. It has a catchment area of about 33.5 km², to which the Schlichem, over 11 km long at its inflow, contributes almost 90%. The watercourses Hölzlegraben from the forest to the right of the lake and Scheubühlgraben and Räßentälebach from the left, up to 1.2 km long, flow into it from the sides. A fish ladder leads from the Vorsee pre-reservoir near Untere Säge to the reservoir. There is also the only bridge over the lake that can be walked and driven on. The Schlichem Viaduct can only be used by the railway. The Schlichemtalsperre was built between 1940 and 1944. The Portlandzementwerk Rudolf Rohrbach KG (today Holcim (Süddeutschland) GmbH), based in neighboring Dotternhausen, which was the client for the dam, initially used it for cooling water supply and power generation. An outdoor swimming pool built in 1935 was flooded. After World War II, the facility was taken over by the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1948. The reservoir was renovated from 1975 to 1983. The barrier structure is an earth dam, and the hydropower plant within it has an output of 60 kW. There is a pre-reservoir, the Vorsee, which was built from 1975 to 1977. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlichemtalsperre

Schlichemtalsperre 🌊 - Fish ladder / Water ladder - Reservoir 🌊 - Schömberg - Zollernalbkreis

The Schenkenberger Bridge was beautifully built...

Beautifully constructed wooden bridge. It also serves as a weather protection from sun or rain.

Narrenbrunnen ⛲ - Hauptstraße corner Untere Kirchstraße - Schömberg-Schörzingen - Zollernalbkreis

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Gallus is located in Schörzingen, a district of Schömberg in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The building is registered as an architectural monument with the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg. The hall church, built between 1727 and 1740, consists of a nave, a recessed choir closed on three sides in the east, a choir flank tower on the north wall of the choir, which is covered transversely with a gable roof between tail gables. The sacristy is located under the lean-to roof in the south of the choir. The statues of the church furnishings were created during the construction period. Under the gallery there is a painting depicting the Last Judgement created by August Blepp in 1947. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gallus_(Sch%C3%B6rzingen)