Plaue lock

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Plaue lock
northern basin of the Plaue lock

northern basin of the Plaue lock

location
Plaue lock (Brandenburg)
Plaue lock
Coordinates 52 ° 24 '11 "  N , 12 ° 23' 36"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '11 "  N , 12 ° 23' 36"  E
Place: Plaue , Brandenburg on the Havel
Waters: Woltersdorf old canal
Water kilometers : km 81.95
Data
Start of operation: 1745
Modification: 1781, 1823, 1886
Shutdown: 1931
lock
Type: Inland lock
Usable length: 67.00 m
Usable width: 8.60 m
Others

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The Plaue lock is a lock complex in the Woltersdorf old canal of the former Plau canal , the main course of which has been part of the Elbe-Havel canal since the 1930s . It is located in the Plaue district of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . The Plauer lock has been out of service since the opening of the Elbe-Havel Canal and the Wusterwitz lock. The lock is now a listed building .

history

The Plauer Canal as a connection between the Havel lakes near Brandenburg and the Elbe was built under Friedrich II . It was created between the years 1743 and 1745 and shortened the shipping route between Berlin and Magdeburg considerably and avoided a complicated run-up on the Elbe. In order to be able to descend from the higher level of the Elbe to the level of the Havel, three locks were built along the canal. In addition to the Plauer, this was the old Parey lock and the Kade lock .

The first canal lock in Plaue was a wooden lock, which had to be replaced as early as 1781. The first massive chamber lock was built from 1821 to 1823. The dimensions of the structure were a chamber length of 44.25 meters and a chamber width of 8.15 meters. It was created north of the former wooden lock.

Due to the increasing shipping traffic in the second half of the 19th century, the canal systems were constantly expanded and widened. In the years 1884 to 1886, a lock basin with the dimensions 67 meters chamber length and 8.60 meters chamber width was created so that ships of the Plau dimension now defined on the basis of this structure could pass through the lock and the canal. Plauer Maßkähne were 65 meters long and 8 meters wide.

The Elbe-Havel Canal was expanded from the 1920s. Large parts of the Plauer Canal were integrated into this. However, the section called Woltersdorf Altarm, in which the Plaue lock is located, was not part of the new canal. Instead of following the course of the old canal, which would have meant turning left from the direction of the Elbe before Wusterwitz, the Elbe-Havel Canal was built straight towards the southern area of ​​the Wendsee. As a replacement for the Plauer lock, the Wusterwitz lock was built in the new course of the canal . The Plaue lock was then taken out of service and a rifle brigade was built into the head . The lock basins are in good condition to this day, so that a renovation and recommissioning of the system for water tourism and pleasure craft traffic would be possible in principle, whereby the upper water of the Wusterwitz lock due to the elimination of the Kade lock, Wusterwitz replaced the structures in Plaue and Kade, significantly over which the Plauer lock lies. The construction of another lock at the second weir in the Woltersdorf old canal would be necessary.

photos

literature

  • Manfred Reschke: The Havel. Nature and culture between Müritz and Havelberg . Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89794-206-6 .
  • Hans-Joachim Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88412-204-5 .

cards

  • Folke Stender (editor): Sportschifffahrtskarten inland 1 . Nautical Publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .

Web links

Commons : Plauer Kanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - City of Brandenburg an der Havel . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09145625, December 31, 2018, p. 31 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
  2. ^ Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-09103-3 , p. 253 f.