Fürstenwalde lock
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 21 '14 " N , 14 ° 3' 58" E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Brandenburg
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| Place: | Fürstenwalde / Spree | |
| Waters: | Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße | |
| Water kilometers : | km 74.75 | |
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| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Berlin , outskirts of Fürstenwalde | |
| Start of planning: | before 1890 | |
| Construction time: | North lock from 1891 South lock 1912 to 1914 |
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| Type: | Inland lock | |
| Usable length: | North lock 67.60 m South lock 67.70 m |
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| Usable width: | North lock 8.54 m South lock 9.40 m |
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| Average height of fall : |
0.93 m | |
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| Was standing: | Call channel VHF 22 | |
The Fürstenwalde lock forms the lock group of the Fürstenwalde canal level in the Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße federal waterway in the German state of Brandenburg . It is the responsibility of the Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office .
history
A Fürstenwald mill jam in the Spree was first mentioned in 1298. At the instigation of Elector Johann Georg , a first lock was built in 1588 to bypass the mill dam. This lock enabled shipping to the Kersdorfer See on the Fürstenwalder Spree . At the Kersdorfer See there was a deposit called "Frankfurter Defeat". From here the goods were transported overland to Frankfurt on the Oder or from there to storage. The developing trade in goods required two new locks to be built in 1738 and 1833 in the area between today's weir and today's Nordschleuse. The new lock from 1833 was built with staggered heads, so that two ships with a length of 40.20 m and a width of 4.60 m, the Finow dimension , could be locked at the same time . The Finow measure went down in history as the first standardized inland waterway measure. From 1836 on, the Royal Hydraulic Engineering Inspection commissioned the renovation of the free ark and the weir. This guaranteed drainage, navigability and ice drainage in the area of the lock. With the opening of the Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße in 1890, a new weir became necessary and today's Nordschleuse with a usable length of 65 meters was built. It went into operation in 1891. In 1912 the foundation stone for the wider southern lock was laid. It was opened to traffic in 1914. Both lock chambers are closed on the upper and lower head by stem gates. Roller wedge gates are used to fill and empty the lock chambers in the perimeter of the gate. The heads, the soles and parts of the rising chamber wall are made of steel reinforced concrete.
literature
- Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . transpress Verlag, Berlin, various years, ISBN 3-344-00115-9 , p. 178 ff.
- Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. , various years. WESKA (Western European Shipping and Harbor Calendar), Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag, Duisburg-Ruhrort OCLC 48960431
Web links
- WSA information sheet (PDF file) accessed on December 7, 2019
- WSA website accessed on December 7, 2019