Branch canal Osnabrück

Branch canal Osnabrück
To Pye road bridge
abbreviation	SKO
location	Germany: Lower Saxony
length	14.5 km
Built	1910-1915
Expanded	1980-2011
Beginning	Mittelland Canal km 30.4
The End	Osnabrück harbor
Descent structures	Hollage lock, Haste lock
Ports	Piesberg port, Osnabrück oil port, Osnabrück port
Kilometrage	Towards the south, ascending km 0.00 to 12.988, the remaining length belongs to the port
Ascent	To the south
Competent authority	WSA Mittelland Canal / Elbe Lateral Canal

The Osnabrück branch canal (SKO), sometimes also known as the Osnabrück canal , is an approximately 14.5 km long artificial waterway that connects the Mittelland Canal with the port in the Osnabrück district of the same name . It was built between 1910 and 1915 and runs largely parallel to the non-navigable Hase with a maximum distance of about one kilometer .

course

The branch canal begins in Bramsche-Pente at canal kilometer 30.39 of the Mittelland Canal with an altitude of 50.3  m above sea level. NN and initially leads south. After about 2.5 km it crosses the border to the municipality of Wallenhorst ; there is a marina . The Hollager lock follows at km 7.2 , where the canal level is 55.05  m above sea level. NN is raised.

In a south- easterly direction, the branch canal continues to the area of ​​the city of Osnabrück , where shortly afterwards a small detour leads south, which can only be used with permission. The boathouses of the Osnabrück water sports clubs are located there .

The port area then begins in the Hafen district: First, the Piesberg port , which used to be used to transport products from the nearby quarry in Piesberg , followed by the oil port , which supplies the city with mineral oils .

With the subsequent lock Haste at km 12.7, through which the level to 59.8  m above sea level. NN is raised, the federal waterway ends after 13 km as waterway class IV (European waterway) , for which the waterways and shipping office Mittellandkanal / Elbe-Seitenkanal has been responsible since February 5, 2020 (previously the waterways and shipping office Minden).

Then the city ​​harbor begins , where various goods are stored and transhipped. With a length of about 1.5 km, the port basin forms the end of the branch canal.

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  Branch canal Osnabrück, branching off from the Mittelland Canal near Achmer

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  Osnabrück branch canal, Hollager lock

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  Haste lock

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  The branch canal ends in the Osnabrück city harbor

history

new bridge 79

The old steel truss bridge, Brücke 79 , over which the street Die Eversburg runs, was replaced in 2009 by a new prestressed concrete bridge. The bridge built in 1914, which, like a bridge to the south over an old arm of the Hase, was also known as the Roman Bridge , with a span of 34.40 m and a width of 6.19 m, did not have enough span to widen the canal. The new bridge, which was adapted to the new profile of the branch canal, is 52.90 m long and has a 5.50 m wide roadway. In addition, a 2.50 m wide bike and footpath has been laid out on the east side. The construction costs for the replacement bridge are specified as EUR 3.0 million. The new bridge was opened to traffic on November 27, 2009 at noon.

After the heavy rainfall through the Cathleen low , the Leinpfaddamm was flooded over a length of 100 meters on August 27, 2010 by the high water rabbit , which is located next to the branch canal. Because of the flooding, water ran from the rabbit into the branch canal that day and damaged the towpath, which runs on a dam next to the canal. Since the hare had already run over the dam into the branch canal during a flood in March 1981, a sheet pile wall was subsequently installed there . The existing sheet pile wall prevented worse things from happening in 2010, so that there was only washout on the dam instead of a dam break.

After the floods, it took over a year to completely repair the damage to the towpath and the canal embankment. In addition, a flood relief was installed at the point, with which water the rabbit is led into the branch canal if the level is too high.

literature

• Lothar H. Hülsmann: branch canal Osnabrück. From the Mittelland Canal to the Port of Osnabrück , 1st edition, self-published, Osnabrück 2012

Web links

Commons : Stichkanal Osnabrück  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Branch canal Osnabrück

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Top 50 NRW - Official Topographical Maps North Rhine-Westphalia 1: 50000 (CD-ROM), Version 3.0 (published in 2000 by the Land Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on June 26, 2011)
2. ↑ Water stationing map of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (accessed on September 19, 2018)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration 
4. ↑ Directory E, serial no. 33 der Chronik ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration 
5. ↑ WSA press release: Bridge 79 will be opened to traffic (pdf) ; Retrieved May 5, 2020
6. ↑ In Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of June 24th, 2011: "Cycle path on the Osnabrück branch canal closed for almost a year" ; accessed on April 12, 2019
7. ↑ In Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of June 18, 2013: "Flood protection in Wersen and Halen after the 2010 floods" ; accessed on April 12, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 22 ″  E