Neukölln lock
| Neukölln lock | ||
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 Neukölln lock |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '59 " N , 13 ° 27' 15" E | |
| Country: |
 Berlin
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| Place: | Berlin | |
| Waters: | Neukölln shipping canal | |
| Water kilometers : | km 3.30 | |
| Data | ||
| Owner: | State of Berlin | |
| Responsible WSA : | Berlin Senate Administration, Berlin-Neukölln District Office | |
| Start of operation: | 1913 | |
| Modification: | 1960/61 | |
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| Type: | Self-service gate | |
| Category: | Inland lock | |
| Usable length: | 67.00 m, after renovation 70.00 m | |
| Usable width: | 27.40 m, after renovation 15.00 m | |
| Average height of fall : |
Annual mean 0.14 m | |
| Upper gate: | Miter gate | |
| Lower gate: | Miter gate | |
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The Neukölln lock is the only one in the area of the Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office that is not administered by this federal authority , but by the City of Berlin. It is located at kilometer 3.30 of the Neukölln shipping canal . Responsible is the Berlin Senate Administration, Neukölln District Office.
history
The Rixdorf branch canal was built between 1902 and 1905 . It branched off to the south just before the underwater of the upper lock at the almost right-angled bend of the Landwehr Canal. In a length of about 1.9 kilometers it ran to the municipal gasworks at the Teupitz bridge and made it possible to supply the same with coal. The reconstruction of the Rixdorf branch canal into the Neukölln shipping canal in 1912/1913 from the branch to the connecting canal between the Teltow Canal and the Landwehr Canal made it necessary to build another lock to overcome the water level difference between the canals. A simple chamber lock with massive lock heads was built. The sloping, slope-like chamber walls of the lock were paved. The usable chamber width was 27.40 meters and the usable length 67.00 meters. The goal width was given as 8.50 meters. The difference between the upper and lower water is only 0.14 meters on average. The lock chamber was emptied or filled by submerged gunners. It was also operated manually by a lock operator. Thus three Groß-Plauer measuring boats could be funneled at the same time . The miter gates of the lock chamber were operated by the lock personnel by hand. In 1960 a motor ship collided with a lock gate. As a result of the collision and the resulting damage to the gate and lock, it was closed.
Because of the low height of fall, consideration was given to demolishing the lock completely. To do this, however, the water level of the Landwehr Canal would have had to be raised and many passenger ships on the popular urban route would no longer have been able to pass the canal due to the decreasing bridge clearance heights.
The Berlin Senate therefore decided to carry out major renovations. The design of the lock was changed to a modern chamber lock. The lock was electrified, signaling and lighting systems and the gates got electric drives. Eight years later, a central control station was built in a newly built lock foreman building.
In the years 2000/01, the lock was completely repaired and automated so that it can be operated by the boat operator himself. In addition, since then, filling and emptying has been done through the gate openings and no longer underground.
literature
- H.-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways. DSV-Verlag Hamburg 1994, p. 127/128.
- Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. WESKA (Western European Shipping and Harbor Calendar), Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag, Duisburg-Ruhrort. OCLC 48960431 S.
cards
- Folke Stender: Editing of Sportschifffahrtskarten Binnen 2. Nautical Publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 . P. 43
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neukölln lock can be passed around the clock again. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, Berlin, October 8, 2001, accessed on January 24, 2020 .