Old lock Parey
| Old lock Parey | ||
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 Remains of the northern chamber wall of the old Parey lock |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '31 " N , 11 ° 59' 30" E | |
| Place: | New heirs | |
| Waters: | Plauer Canal | |
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| Construction time: | between 1743 and 1745 | |
| Shutdown: | 1891 | |
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| Type: | Inland lock | |
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The old lock Parey was a lock structure north of the town of Parey in the course of the Plauer Canal . Remnants of the lock can be found today at Neuderbe, which emerged after construction .
history
Between 1743 and 1745 the Plauer Canal was built as an artificial waterway at the instigation of the Prussian King Friedrich II . Three locks were built in the canal, next to the one at Parey, the Kade lock and the Plaue lock . The canal allowed the passage of ships 36.10 meters long and 4.00 meters wide. At that time the ships were usually towed in the canal .
When the Plauer Canal was expanded between 1862 and 1866, only a few maintenance work was carried out on the locks, but they remained structurally unchanged. The new maximum ship sizes of 40.20 meters in length, 4.60 meters in width and 1.25 meters in draft could still be channeled.
A second expansion of the Plauer Canal took place between 1883 and 1891, after shipping traffic had doubled after the Ihle Canal went into operation and ever larger ships were operating on the waterways. Since the Plauer channel via a bayou with the Elbe near Derben led and often silted this mouth, so they regularly dredged are needed, which proved to be very problematic, moved to the channel mouth about 3.5 kilometers upstream. The new Parey lock was built between 1890 and 1891 in the new branch of the canal . The old estuary became the excavator Elbe . When the new lock went into operation about 1.5 kilometers away, the old lock was taken out of service. After the renovations, the canal ran at a distance of around 25 meters from the old Parey lock.
Building
The structure of the old Parey lock is only a ruin . The lock was immediately before the opening of the Plauer channel in an oxbow lake of the same , now federal waterway (annex waterway) Altarm age Elbarm (AAEl) built. Within sight of the Pareyer connection canal (PVK), the successor to the Plau canal in this area, parts of the masonry of the lock chamber still exist in a bushy area. In particular, parts of the northern and, to a lesser extent, the southern wall of the lock chamber have been preserved. The lock walls are bricked with red clinker . The area of the lower head is still recognizable.
As can be seen on an old photo from August 1892, the old Parey lock was a one-chamber lock with wooden mortise gates . A wooden bridge with a mast passage led across the lock.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elbe-Havel Canal. Historical development. In: wsa-brandenburg.wsv.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .