Waterways and Shipping Office Freiburg

Waterways and Shipping Office Freiburg (WSA Freiburg)
State level	Federation
position	Local authority
Supervisory authority	Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping
founding	1949
resolution	October 22, 2019
Headquarters	Freiburg in Breisgau

The Waterways and Shipping Office Freiburg (WSA Freiburg) was a waterways and shipping office in Germany. It belonged to the service area of ​​the General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping , formerly the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Southwest .

By merging the waterways and shipping authorities in Freiburg and Mannheim , the new waterways and shipping department for Upper Rhine was merged on October 22, 2019 .

Area of ​​responsibility

Rhine with the Breisach cultural weir (in the foreground; in the background the Rhine canal on French territory)

The Freiburg Waterways and Shipping Office was responsible for 180 km of the Rhine federal waterway from the Rhine-km 170,000 at the triangle between Germany ( Weil am Rhein ), Switzerland ( Basel ) and France ( Huningue ) to the Rhine-km 352,070 (end of the German French border line or border Rhineland-Palatinate and at the same time border to the official area of ​​the waterways and shipping office Mannheim ).

Area of ​​responsibility

The tasks of the Waterways and Shipping Office Freiburg included:

• Maintenance and expansion of the federal waterway in the official area
• Operation and maintenance of structures, e.g. B. Locks , weirs and bridges , the Iffezheim lock is one of the largest inland locks in Europe and operates 24 hours a day, the lock on the Old Rhine in Breisach is fully automatic and self-operated
• Operation of the bed load addition at the Iffezheim barrage to prevent deep erosion of the Rhine.
• Maintenance and operation of the floating and fixed navigation signs in the official area
• Maintenance and operation of a hydrological measuring network
• Performing and evaluating runoff and flow measurements
• Takeover of electricity and shipping police tasks

Outskirts

The suburbs of Breisach , Kehl and Iffezheim with the building yard belonged to the Freiburg waterways and shipping authority ; they were responsible for the Rhine km 170,000 to 272,000 (Breisach), Rhine km 272,000 to 322.070 (Kehl) and Rhine km 322.070 to 352.070 (Iffezheim).

Official seat

The building, which dates from the 1960s, was reopened in January 2012 after it was renovated for around 4.9 million euros, carefully preserving the original architecture. In 2007, following a competitive process, a Freiburg architects' office was selected as the architect of the renovation project. The facade renovation was aimed at minimizing energy losses and optimizing the daylight autonomy of the offices. The reduced design language of the original building was adopted and further developed. Glass fiber reinforced precast concrete elements were used as the facade material. In further construction phases, the parking deck was covered with a solar system and the stairwell was glazed for fire protection reasons.

Small vehicle license plate

The small watercraft in the area of ​​the Waterways and Shipping Office Freiburg were assigned small vehicle registration numbers with the identifier FR .

Web links

Commons : Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Freiburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Water and Shipping Office , Gies Architects. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 3.7 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 43.7"  E