Calbe lock
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.jpg) Lock chamber with laterally offset lifting gate portal |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 54 '12 " N , 11 ° 47' 21" E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
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| Place: | Calbe , district of Gottesgnaden | |
| Waters: | Saale | |
| Water kilometers : | km 20.0 | |
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| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Magdeburg | |
| Construction time: | 1939-1941 | |
| Start of operation: | 1941 | |
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| Category: | Class IV (Europawasserstraße) | |
| Is controlled by: | Remote control center Bernburg | |
| Usable length: | 103.0 m | |
| Usable width: | 12.0 m | |
| Average height of fall : |
3.46 m | |
| Upper gate: | Lift gate | |
| Lower gate: | Lift gate | |
| Others | ||
| Was standing: | June 2017 | |
The Calbe lock is a lock on the Saale federal waterway . It is located in the district of Gottesgnaden in the city of Calbe in Saxony-Anhalt . The Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for operation and maintenance .
history
After the construction of a Saale weir in Calbe, the first lock was built in 1564 as a chamber lock in a side arm of the Saale. A plant built in 1605 worked until the beginning of the Thirty Years War. In 1695 a new system with vertical chamber walls was built; stones from the former collegiate church Gratia Dei were used in the grace of God . From 1783 to 1787 a more modern lock was built, which was in operation until 1889. For the next 50 years the ships passed through a lock corresponding to the industrial age with a length of 56.5 m and 6.5 m width. In 1926 the Reich government decided - as part of the planning for the so-called Mittelland Canal south wing to the waterway connection from Leipzig - to expand the Saale for 1000-ton ships. This happened from 1933 until the Second World War from the mouth at Barby to Halle . An expansion above Halle has not been planned since then. Construction of the current Calbe lock began in 1939 and was completed in 1941.
description
Today's Calbe lock is a tow lock. The laterally offset lock gates are typical of this type of lock. The entrance width of the upper and lower head, ie the gate width, is 12 meters. They widen towards the middle and the usable width is then 20 meters. As a result, several barges of a tugboat can lie next to each other in the lock and can be locked together. The concrete lock chamber has a usable length of 103.0 m. To increase the chamber width to 20.0 m, the 12.0 m wide lifting gates are laterally offset. The chamber is filled and emptied by lifting the lifting gates, which are guided to the portals typical of the hall locks. The lock is controlled at set times from the remote control center in Bernburg . The lower lifting gate was last replaced by a new building in spring 2017. A lock bridge with a passage width of 12 meters leads over the lower part of the lock.
literature
- M. Eckoldt (Ed.), Rivers and Canals, The History of German Waterways, DSV-Verlag 1998
cards
- W. Ciesla, H. Czesienski, W. Schlomm, K. Senzel, D. Weidner: Shipping maps of the inland waterways of the German Democratic Republic 1: 10,000. Volume I, editor: Wasserstraßenaufsichtsamt der GDR. Berlin 1988. OCLC 830889996
Web links
- The Calbe lock on the WSA site , accessed on December 12, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example of an image on the WSA website
- ↑ a b Calbe lock. (PDF) WSA Magdeburg , June 1, 2017, accessed on June 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Operating times of the Calbe lock. (No longer available online.) ELWIS , archived from the original on July 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
