Karl Heine Canal
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The Karl Heine Canal is an artificial watercourse around 3.3 km long in the west of the city of Leipzig , which connects the Lindenau harbor with the White Elster . It is spanned by 15 bridges and is navigable with small boats. The canal is a cultural monument in Leipzig as a historical entity “canal, bank fortifications and bridges” .
bridges
The following bridges cross the Karl Heine Canal (starting with the confluence with the White Elster ):
- Nonnenbrücke (road bridge on Nonnenstrasse)
- Track bridge P VIII (track bridge of the former industrial track P VIII , built on with the riverboat platform )
- Elisabethbrücke (road bridge on Erich-Zeigner-Allee)
- König-Johann-Brücke (road bridge on Zschocherschen Strasse)
- Karl-Heine-Bogen (foot and cycle bridge)
- Weißenfelser Brücke (road bridge on Weißenfelser Strasse)
- König-Albert-Brücke (road bridge on Karl-Heine-Strasse)
- Aurelienbrücke (foot and cycle bridge on Aurelienstrasse)
- Gießerbrücke (road bridge on Gießerstraße)
- Track bridge PI (track bridge of the former industrial track PI )
- König-August-Brücke (road bridge on Engertstrasse)
- Railway bridge ( railway line Leipzig – Probstzella )
- Saalfelder Brücke (road bridge on Saalfelder Strasse)
- On the canal (foot and cycle bridge, replacement of the wooden superstructure with a steel superstructure, 2016)
- Luisenbrücke (road bridge on Lützner Strasse; the canal ended a few meters before the bridge before January 29, 2015)
- Bridge over the entrance to Lindenau Harbor (Aluminum, 2015)
A special feature among the canal bridges is the Karl-Heine-Bogen based on a design by the engineering office König und Heunisch and the architects Pahl + Weber-Pahl . The tied arch structure of the arched bridge, which was inaugurated on June 4, 2000, was created using a hybrid construction method. To mount a full slab, rigid V-shaped pairs of supports are connected to an arched pipe with a span of 28 meters. The slim cross-section of the curved pipe of 355.6 × 12.5 mm was achieved by filling it with a pumpable, high-strength lightweight concrete . The bridge has a longitudinal incline of 5.4%.
history
The canal was laid out from 1856 on the initiative of the Leipzig lawyer and industrial pioneer Carl Heine as the first part of a projected shipping canal from the White Elster to the Saale . Construction of the canal began in Plagwitz on the White Elster. The first section of the canal was inaugurated on June 25, 1864, and in 1887 the Zeitz Railway was reached in Lindenau . Between 1890 and 1898 the last section was built for the time being, which ended shortly before the Lindenau harbor .
The canal was rehabilitated in the 1990s. A foot / cycle path was laid out on the northern bank of the canal, which was inaugurated on September 16, 1996 in the presence of the then Federal Environment Minister Angela Merkel .
In 2007, the city administration decided to commission the planning necessary for the extension of the canal to the port in order to enable the connection that had been planned for a long time.
On July 18, 2012, the city council decided to extend the canal to the port. 18 million euros are to be built into the project by 2015, from which not only the city administration is hoping to have effects on urban development in the west of Leipzig. The municipality had to contribute around 3.8 million euros from its own budget, 7.6 million euros are to be gained from the sale of land on Plautstrasse. The rest of the costs were financed with subsidies, including from the EU urban development fund "Jessica".
On January 29, 2015, the flooding of the 665-meter-long connection between the Karl-Heine Canal and the Lindenau harbor began. The process was completed on schedule three weeks later. On July 2, 2015, the new route was opened for boat traffic. Before the 75 meter long connection from the port to the Elster-Saale Canal can be established, a barrage for high and low waterfalls must be built south of the Luisenbrücke.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Flooding of the waterway connection "Karl-Heine-Canal - Lindenauer Hafen" started. City of Leipzig, January 29, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 .
- ^ The Karl-Heine-Bogen: a hybrid bridge construction. In: Gert König , Nguyen Viet Tue, Martin Zink: high-performance concrete. Dimensioning, manufacture and application. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-433-01738-7 , pp. 251-257
- ^ Gert König, Balthasar Novak, Michael Fischer, Klaus Barthel: The Karl-Heine-Bogen in Leipzig. Hybrid bridge construction using high-performance lightweight concrete. In: Structural Engineering. Journal for all civil engineering. Vol. 77 (2000), No. 8, pp. 523-535, ISSN 0932-8351
- ↑ Connection of the Lindenau harbor approved: FDP criticizes, water festival organizers cheer article in Leipziger Volkszeitung at lvz-online.de; Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ↑ 665 meters: Lindenauer Hafen connected with Karl-Heine-Kanal Article of the Leipziger Volkszeitung at lvz-online.de; Retrieved July 3, 2015.
- ↑ Ralf Julke: The breakthrough to the Saale-Elster Canal remains a long way off . In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung. December 27, 2018, accessed January 16, 2019 .
