Dückerschleuse
The Dückerschleuse near Witzeeze is the only remaining lock on the Stecknitz Canal .
history
The Dückerschleuse was put into operation in 1398 as the “Kronschleuse” to enable navigation on the Delvenau as part of the Stecknitz Canal. At the beginning of the 17th century it was named after the lock master Hans Dücker, who then bequeathed the office to his son-in-law Hans Burmester.
In 1789, the lock was replaced by a new building in Stein according to plans by the Hanoverian engineer colonel Johann Ludewig Hogrewe (the Duchy of Lauenburg was at that time run by the Electorate of Hanover in personal union). 1813 was by the French in retreat blown up and rebuilt in its present form 1815th
After the Stecknitz Canal was closed in 1896, the lock was also taken out of service. The lock master's house to the west, which was built in 1720 and had served the Stecknitz drivers with beer and brandy, was continued as an inn until 1996. From 1945 to 1990 the inner-German border ran along the Delvenau and thus through the middle of the former lock.
In 1996 the facility was renovated by the Stecknitzfahrt cultural monument support group .
Access
From the Witzeeze lock, a signposted road follows the east bank of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal to the south and then about 400 m to the south-east to a parking lot with an information board ( 53 ° 26 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 34.8 ″ E ). Since the lock master’s house is now privately owned, a path leads first in a north-easterly, then in a south-easterly direction to the burial site of the Burmester lock master’s family. From there, the Delvenau (and thus the border to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) can be crossed by a footbridge . About 50 meters south of there is the Dückerschleuse ( 53 ° 26 ′ 42.9 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 39.4 ″ E, ).
literature
- Walter Müller: The Stecknitz trip. 3. Edition. Goedeke, Büchen 2002, ISBN 3-9802782-0-4 .
- William Boehart, Cordula Bornefeld, Christian Lopau: The history of the Stecknitz trip. 1398-1998. Viebranz, Schwarzenbek 1998, ISBN 3-921595-29-0 ( special publications of the Heimatbund and history association Herzogtum Lauenburg 29).
