Canal bridge Alte Fahrt

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Canal bridge Alte Fahrt
View from the canal bridge Alte Fahrt down the lip
Canal bridge Alte Fahrt over the Lippe, east side

The Alte Fahrt canal bridge leads the Alte Fahrt of the Dortmund-Ems Canal over the Lippe .

The bridge is one of the four historic bridge structures on the old route of the Dortmund-Ems Canal (DEK) between Datteln and Olfen . Further north, the DEK crosses Oststrasse in Olfen with the Leaning Bridge and the Stever with another canal bridge ; further south is the canal bridge over Pelkumer Weg .

The canal overpass over the Lippe was designed in the style of historicism under the direction of the Royal Prussian Senior Building Director Karl Hinckeldeyn and completed in 1895. Three sandstone arches with a span of 21 meters arch over the lip, which forms the border between Datteln and Olfen. The bridge is 18 meters high, the bridge trough 15 meters wide and 70 meters long.

In order to compensate for losses due to sluicing or evaporation or infiltration, water was fed into the canal at the bridge since 1897. There was also a basin next to the Lippe, from which water was pumped up into the canal with the help of steam engines. In 1914, this water supply was replaced by the Hamm water transfer on the Datteln-Hamm Canal and shut down. The former machine house is now privately owned, and some of the conveyor systems next to the bridge still exist.

The old trip and the bridge trough are still filled with water, but separated from the canal triangle in Datteln by several dams .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 34.3"  E