Ahsen lock
The locks Ahsen include - from Rhein ago - the fifth channel of the six stages of the Wesel Datteln channel (WDK) at 55.9 kilometers channel in dates - Ahsen . The lock group overcomes a height difference of 7.50 meters.
The large lock is 222 meters long, 12 meters wide and has lifting gates at both ends. It was built between 1925 and 1927 and officially opened in 1931 with the Wesel-Datteln Canal. The lifting gates were renewed in the 1990s as with the other large locks on the canal.
The small lock was built in 1970, is 112 meters long and 11.83 meters wide. It has a lifting gate on the upper water and a sliding gate on the lower water.
Both locks are operated by the lock operators in the on-site control stands. The pumping station is operated by the remote control center (FZW) of the Duisburg-Meiderich waterway and shipping office in Datteln, which went into operation in 1984 .
The return pumping station, which has existed since the canal was commissioned in 1931, is initially used to pump the lock water that has drained into the lower water back into the upper water. In addition, Rhine water can be pumped in the direction of the Dattelner Meer along the entire pumping station chain of the WDK to feed the Herne / Datteln-Münster apex section of the West German canal network . A maximum of three of the four pumps are operated with a throughput of 4300 liters per second, the geodetic delivery head is 9.60 meters.
Large lock: at the front drive motor on the lower lifting gate for the outlet gates in the gate, at the rear closed upper lifting gate
Return pumping station between the small and large lock with rake at the water inlet
View from the small sluice to the then closed underwater and the hiking rest area on the left
Empty small lock during the revision work August / September 2009
literature
DIN 4054, traffic water, terms, September 1977
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E