Halle-Trotha lock
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 '50 " N , 11 ° 57' 17" E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
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| Place: | Halle (Saale) | |
| Waters: | Saale | |
| Water kilometers : | km 89.20 | |
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| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Magdeburg | |
| Construction time: | 1873-1874 | |
| Start of operation: | 1874 | |
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| Type: | Self-service gate | |
| Category: | Class I. | |
| Is controlled by: | Self-service gate | |
| Usable length: | 52.89 m | |
| Usable width: | Gate width 6.12 m, chamber width 6.12 m |
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| Average height of fall : |
2.41 m | |
| Upper gate: | Miter gate | |
| Lower gate: | Miter gate | |
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| Was standing: | Tel. +49 345 5201787 | |
The Halle-Trotha lock is a lock at kilometer 89.20 of the Saale federal waterway 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. Saale down, these are the lock Planena that lock Boellberg that lock hall City , the lock Gimritz and the lock Halle-Trotha. 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. The Elector Friedrich III. On July 13th, 1694 personally laid the foundation stone for the first stone lock on the Saale in Trotha near Halle. 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 still available and usable lock should by the bypass channel hall with the lock hall be bypassed. The construction documents were fully prepared in the 1930s. 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 used to be very branched 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 . The Halle-Trotha lock is a heavyweight lock with a catch lock, i. H. About 420 meters downstream of the lock there is another lock gate in the lock ditch, which has sloping unpaved banks. ( 51 ° 31 ′ 4 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 8 ″ E ) The lock chamber and lock head are made of masonry with sandstone facing. The bottom of the chamber consists of existing rock. The lock chamber is closed and opened by means of mortise gates that are moved electromechanically. They are made of steel. For filling and emptying of the sluice serve Gleitschütze in the gates. The dimensions of all locks in the area of ABz5 today correspond to inland waterway class I. The Halle-Trotha lock is a self-service lock.
literature
- M. Eckoldt (Ed.), Rivers and Canals, The History of 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 February 1, 2018.
- Website of the Saale-Elster-Kanal Förderverein eV accessed on February 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Halle-Trotha lock on the WSA Abz 5 page , accessed on February 1, 2018
- ↑ Walter de Gruyter: Systematics of the German waterways , 1936, Kurt Vowinkel Verlag, page 19
- ↑ Reading sample WSA-ABZ Merseburg . Reading sample as a PDF file