Edersee

Edersee
An aerial view of the Edersee
Edersee
Location	West Hesse Depression, Hesse
Coordinates	51°11′36″N 9°02′16″E / 51.19337°N 9.037851°E / 51.19337; 9.037851
Catchment area	1,443 km2 (557 sq mi)
Basin countries	Germany
Max. length	28.5 km (17.7 mi)
Max. width	1.2 km (0.75 mi)
Surface area	11.8 km2 (4.6 sq mi)
Max. depth	41.7 m (137 ft)
Water volume	199,300,000 m3 (7.04×109 cu ft)
Surface elevation	244.97 m (803.7 ft)
Settlements	Waldeck

The Edersee, also known as the Ederstausee, is an 11.8 km² (4.6 sq mi)

Being in the Naturpark Kellerwald-Edersee and the Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee and overlooked by Waldeck Castle, it and its surroundings constitute a large recreational/touristic area, economically as well as a reserve for mature trees, woodland flowers, fungi and lichens, wildflowers, animals such as deer, foxes, badgers and occasionally the Eurasian wolf.

This fairly brief central portion of the

Herzhausen, in the west to the dam aforesaid. Beyond an intermittent band of tree-lined fields to the south associated with two shoreside villages is the "Ederhöhen", very high, often steep, wooded foothills to the Kellerwald mountain range – together they form a protected upland forest roughly congruent with the Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee.

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• Edersee Dam

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