Gimritz lock
| Gimritz lock | ||
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 The northern lock gate |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 ′ 19 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
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| Place: | Halle (Saale) | |
| Waters: | Saale | |
| Water kilometers : | km 92.30 | |
| Data | ||
| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Magdeburg | |
| lock | ||
| Type: | Chamber lock | |
| Category: | Class I. | |
| Usable length: | 51.00 m | |
| Usable width: | Gate width 6.11 m, chamber width 6.11 m |
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| Average height of fall : |
0.98 m | |
| Upper gate: | Miter gate | |
| Lower gate: | Miter gate | |
| Others | ||
| Was standing: | Tel. +49 345 2901651 | |
The Gimritz lock is a lock on the Saale federal waterway near Saale - km 92.30. It is located in the urban area of the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt . The lock was named after Gut Gimritz. Registration for the smuggling takes place by phone. It is located in the area of responsibility of the outer district 5 (ABZ 5) in Merseburg . Between Trotha and the Leuna -Kröllwitz pipe bridge (Saale-Km 124.40) the Saale has waterway class I and is mainly used by passenger and sport shipping.
history
The use of the Saale for goods or passenger transport has been documented since 981. It is reported in chronicles of the Saale shipping that the water of the Saale river was dammed as early as the second half of the 14th century . The accumulated amount of water was used to operate mills and rafts. On October 21, 1530, Emperor Karl V granted the archbishopric of Magdeburg the privilege of free navigation on the Saale and permission to expand the river. The first wooden locks were used by the boatmen to handle freight traffic. Prince Wolfgang von Anhalt , regent of Bernburg, signed a contract in 1559 at the urging of Archbishop Sigismund to expand and secure shipping on the Saale. Not until almost 100 years later, from 1790 onwards, shipping on the Saale was further expanded. The Elector of Saxony, Friedrich August III. ordered the upper hall and the Unstrut to be made navigable.
The lock still available and usable today was to be bypassed by the Halle bypass channel with the Halle lock . The construction documents were fully prepared. The three locks, the Gimritz lock, the Halle city lock and the Böllberg lock were to be bypassed and the waterway made usable for the 1000-tonne ship. As for the Saale locks between Calbe and Wettin , a useful length of just over 100 meters and a width of 20 meters was planned. The Halle bypass canal and the Halle lock were neither built nor completed due to the war.
description
Since the Saale was very branched at that time and formed many islands, it was possible to build weirs and locks in many places. Larger interventions in the river landscape to build mills were not necessary and the developing Saale shipping and rafting were not unduly hindered. The Gimritz estate, owned by the city of Halle since 1540, was part of the hall circle of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . In 1680 the Archbishopric came under Brandenburg-Prussian rule as the Duchy of Magdeburg . During the reign of Elector Friedrich III, the wooden locks were converted into massive locks with stone walls in the 1690s. In 1696, the Gimritz lock was also renewed. It was repaired in 1762 and 1852. During this repair work, a copper plate with an inscription was uncovered. According to this inscription, the foundation stone was laid on June 25, 1696, during the reign of Elector Friedrich III. and is therefore one of the oldest lock locations on the Saale. In 1874 the lock was 52 meters long and only about 5.5 meters wide. It was changed to a usable length of 56 meters and widened to 6.11 meters. The conversion of the lock around 1900 had the goal of making the waterway passable for ships with a Saale dimension . Today's lock has sloping chamber walls. They are founded on the old, formerly vertical heavyweight walls. Another major overhaul took place in 1954.
literature
- M. Eckoldt (Ed.), Rivers and Canals, The History of German Waterways, DSV-Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3884122433
- Pestalozzi Association of the Province of Saxony . The province of Saxony in words and pictures. I. Volume. Published by Julius Klinkhardt, 1902, pp. 95 ff.
- Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . transpress Verlag, Berlin, various years, ISBN 3-344-00115-9
- Herbert Sterz: Havel shipping under sail . Verlag MEDIA @ VICE, Pritzwalk 2005, ISBN 3-00-016065-5
Web links
- Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Magdeburg, outskirts 5 , accessed on January 19, 2018.
- Website of the Saale-Elster-Kanal Förderverein eV accessed on January 19, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reading sample WSA-ABZ Merseburg Reading sample PDF file