Hechtsforthschleuse
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 18 '14 " N , 11 ° 35' 58" E | |
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| Waters | Elde | |
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| Start of planning | 1920 | |
| Start of operation | 1922 | |
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| Bottleneck performance | 0.26 megawatts | |
| Expansion flow | 8 m³ / s | |
| Turbines | 2 Francis turbines | |
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Hechtsforthschleuse is a residential area in the area of the town of Grabow , named after the lock of the same name on the Elde . The settlement is about five kilometers northeast of the city in the middle of extensive forests. The lock keeper's house and the power station at the lock are listed buildings.
history
At the end of the 19th century, due to the growing demand for ship transport, several sections of the Elde were expanded and congested . One construction phase was a lock canal a good eight kilometers long between Grabow and Neustadt , which went into operation in 1895. It was called the Hechtsforth Canal in contemporary sources . The Hechtsforthschleuse was built at the end of the newly built section. The name, in Low German Häktfort , comes from an old field name. From 1654 there is talk of tenß dem Hexforde , sources from the 18th century include Am Hechtsforth or Am Hechtsfort . At the beginning of the 20th century, Hechtsforthschleuse is mentioned as a place.
After the First World War, the need for electricity increased among industry and the population. In 1920 the Landes-Elektrizitätswerke (LEW) were founded and a number of electricity networks and power plants were built in the country. The local hydropower should also be used, for which the barrages at the locks were ideal. The construction of the power plant in Hechtsforthschleuse also began in 1920, it went into operation in 1922 and the town of Grabow was connected to the electricity network. Since the capacity of the power plant was well above the demand at the time, customers from the surrounding villages were attracted by advertising and low tariffs.
Hechtsforthschleuse was also a destination for the Grabower, a restaurant was opened. After the Second World War this was operated as a fishing home by the Grabower local group of the anglers' association.
In 1997 the power plant went into private ownership.
Buildings and plants
Between Neustadt-Glewe and Grabow the Elde mainly flows in a south-westerly direction, in the area of Hechtsforthschleuse almost from east to west. In the area of the lock, the flow-regulated Elde divides into two arms, the lock is located in the southern arm, the northern arm was used to drive the power plant turbines and flows under the listed power plant building. On the north bank, east of the power plant, is a residential building. To the west of the lock on the south bank there are some residential buildings, one of which was used as a restaurant until 2012. This is followed by a small harbor, where there was once a resting place for water hikers , which was converted into private property at least in May 2017 and is no longer usable.
The power plant had two vertical Francis turbines with a maximum flow rate of 8 m³ / s (190 HP each , about 140 kW). In continuous operation, a bottleneck power of 260 kW could be provided on the three-phase generator . The lock lift is about 2.80 meters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Stuhr : The Elbe-Baltic Canal between Dömitz and Wismar. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . - Vol. 64 (1899), p. 250, digitized
- ^ Statistical handbook for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , commission publisher by L. Davids, Schwerin 1910, p. 225.
- ↑ Werner Zühlsdorff, field name atlas of the southern south-west Mecklenburg , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1970, Volume 1 (text), p. 5.
- ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Handbook , 1906, published by the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Statistical Office, Bärensprung, Schwerin (1906), p. 422
- ↑ a b company history. Historical development of WEMAG AG , accessed on June 24, 2014
- ↑ a b c Report by Hans Dörfert on the electrical energy supply in Mecklenburg from the beginning until 1945 , accessed on June 24, 2014
- ↑ a b Historical time table of Mecklenburg and the city of Grabow on grabow-erinnerungen.de, accessed on June 24, 2014.