Flaesheim lock
The Flaesheim locks belong - from the Rhine - to the fourth of the six canal stages of the Wesel-Datteln Canal (WDK) at canal kilometer 49.39 in Haltern - Flaesheim . The lock group overcomes a height difference of four meters.
The large lock is 222 meters long, 12 meters wide, designed for a draft of 2.80 meters, holds 11,500 cubic meters of filling and has lifting gates at both ends. It was built between 1928 and 1929 and officially opened in 1931 with the Wesel-Datteln Canal.
The small lock was built between 1967 and 1969, is 112 meters long, 12 meters wide and holds 6600 cubic meters. 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 .
Two new piers for water hikers were built in the upper water in winter 2006. Along the canal step, the cycle paths route of industrial culture by bike and Roman route lead . The slipway of the nearby Marina Flaesheim is also located at the lock .
Pumping station
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 Datteln canal cross over the entire pumping station chain of the WDK , to feed the Herne / Datteln-Münster apex of the West German canal network . Three pumps are operated with a throughput of 4600 liters per second, the geodetic delivery head is 5.50 meters.
One of the old centrifugal pumps from 1928 is on display on the area between the large and small locks. They had an output of 420 hp and a throughput of 3000 liters per second.
literature
- DIN 4054, hydraulic engineering, terms, September 1977
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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 29.3 ″ E