Lech Museum Bavaria
 Building of the Langweid power plant |
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| place | Langweid am Lech , Bavaria |
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Technology and natural history museum
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| opening | June 2008 |
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Lechwerke AG
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The Lech Museum Bavaria is located in and around the Langweid run-of-river power plant on the Lech Canal in the municipality of Langweid am Lech . It deals on the one hand with the hydropower plant built in 1906 and on the other hand with various aspects of the Lech River . The building is a listed building .
museum
The museum operated by the Lechwerke is located on a total area of 700 square meters in one of their power stations on the Lech. It is divided into three sub-areas. In the outdoor area, the power plant educational trail presents the entire system of the manufacturing plant with canal dike, water inlet, power plant building, transformer station and a raft replica. In the machine hall of the power plant, a decommissioned Francis turbine with generator that has become accessible can be viewed .
In the castle-like bare brick building in historicism style , a two-storey permanent exhibition on the Lech as a natural area, economic factor and historical scene as well as a representation of the development of hydropower on the Lech , electrical energy and the Lech works will be presented, supported by a documentary about the Lech. All areas also have an interactive display suitable for children.
power plant
The Langweid run-of-river power plant was built in 1906 together with a first extension of the Lech Canal and is used to generate electricity. There were Francis turbines installed for a water flow of 125 m³ / s and 7.2 meters height of the result of the technical development in 1993 by Kaplan turbines were replaced with better efficiencies, resulting in a current production of 48.9 million kWh / year makes. A lock for rafts and smaller transport boats was built, but not used due to the end of the Lech rafting .
Web links
- Official website
- Museum description (PDF; 512 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Langweid list of monuments. In: BLfD. Retrieved May 28, 2014 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '53.7 " N , 10 ° 52' 1.2" E