Halle-Stadt lock
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 Halle-Stadt lock, view from Mansfelder Strasse, Halle (Saale) |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '50 " N , 11 ° 57' 37" E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
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| Place: | Halle (Saale) | |
| Waters: | Saale | |
| Water kilometers : | km 93.50 | |
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| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Magdeburg | |
| Construction time: | 1817-1820 | |
| Start of operation: | 1820 | |
| Modification: | 1872-1874 | |
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| Type: | Self-service gate | |
| Category: | Class I. | |
| Is controlled by: | Self-service gate | |
| Usable length: | 47.29 m | |
| Usable width: | Gate width 5.60 m, chamber width 5.60 m |
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| Average height of fall : |
1.14 m | |
| Upper gate: | Miter gate | |
| Lower gate: | Miter gate | |
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| Was standing: | Tel. +49 345 2383716 | |
The Halle-Stadt lock , also known colloquially as the Halle city lock , is a lock at km 93.50 of the Saale federal waterway, centrally located in the urban area of the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt . Registration for the smuggling takes place by phone. It is located in the area of responsibility of outer district 5 (ABZ 5) in Merseburg of the Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office . 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. There are five locks in the urban area of Halle. Down the Saale these are the Planena lock , the Böllberg lock, the Halle city lock, the Gimritz lock and the Halle-Trotha lock . The systems compensate the ships for a difference in height of around nine meters over a river length of 15 kilometers.
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 insistence 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 that the upper hall and the Unstrut 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-Stadt 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. During the reign of Elector Friedrich III. In the 1690s, the existing wooden locks were converted into massive locks with stone walls, almost always made of local sandstone. In 1817–1822, the Saale was made navigable from Halle upwards and on the Unstrut to Artern , and a lock was therefore built in the urban area. Today's Halle city lock is a heavyweight lock with an open floor. The lock chamber and lock head are made of sandstone blocks. They are faced with a concrete wall. The floor of the chamber is laid out with sandstone blocks. The lock chamber is closed and opened by means of mortise gates that are moved electromechanically. For filling and emptying of the sluice serve Gleitschütze in the gates. The four-lane bridge of Bundesstrasse 80 leads over the lower head of the lock . The dimensions of all locks in the area of ABz5 today correspond to inland waterway class I. The Halle-Stadt lock is a self-service lock.
literature
- M. Eckoldt (Hrsg.): Rivers and canals, The history of the German waterways. DSV-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-88412-243-3 .
- 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 26, 2018.
- Website of the Saale-Elster-Kanal Förderverein eV accessed on January 26, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Halle city lock on the WSA Abz 5 page , accessed on January 26, 2018
- ↑ Reading sample WSA-ABZ Merseburg . Reading sample as a PDF file