Wettin lock
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '56 " N , 11 ° 47' 39" E | |
| Country: |
 Germany / Saxony-Anhalt
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| Place: | Wettin-Löbejün | |
| Waters: | Saale | |
| Water kilometers : | km 70.38 | |
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| Owner: | Federal waterways and shipping administration | |
| Responsible WSA : | Magdeburg | |
| Start of planning: | 1932 | |
| Construction time: | 1938, construction halt in 1942/43, construction continued at the end of the 1940s | |
| Start of operation: | 1951 | |
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| Category: | Class IV (Europawasserstraße) | |
| Is controlled by: | Revierzentrale Bernburg | |
| Usable length: | 103.0 m | |
| Usable width: | 12.0 m | |
| Average height of fall : |
2.51 m | |
| Upper gate: | Lift gate | |
| Lower gate: | Lift gate | |
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The Wettin lock is a lock on the Saale federal waterway . The Wettin lock is located in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in the town of Wettin-Löbejün near Saale - km 70.38. It was the last of the large Saale locks to be completed in 1951. The Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for operation and maintenance . Since July 1, 2010, the lock has been remote-controlled via the Bernburg Revierzentrale and is therefore no longer manned. Registration for the smuggling takes place by phone.
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. As part of the Elbe / Saale waterway expansion, the total length was shortened by straightening in the years 1933 to 1942 from 427 kilometers to around 413 kilometers. From km 124.16 near Bad Dürrenberg to km 0.00 confluence with the Elbe (at km 290.78) the Saale is a federal waterway.
description
Today's Wettin lock is a tow lock. The laterally offset lock gates are typical of this type of lock. The entrance width of the upper and lower head, ie the gate width, is 12 meters. They widen towards the middle and the usable width is then 20 meters. As a result, several barges of a tugboat can lie next to each other in the lock and can be locked together. The usable length of the lock chambers is around 100 meters. The lock walls are made of concrete and are vertical. The lock heads are also designed as heavy-weight concrete walls. Both lock gates were built as lifting gates . The lift gates have no openings for filling the lock. The lock chamber is emptied and filled by lifting the gates. Today there are three arms of the river near the lock. The lock is located on an island where there used to be one of the historic Saale locks. It is no longer in operation. A historic lock keeper's house has also been preserved. The former lock dates from before 1698 and was suitable for the passage of barges with a Saale dimension .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00115-9 .
- Western European shipping and port calendar. Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag GmbH. Duisburg-Ruhrort OCLC 48960431
- Martin Eckoldt (Ed.): Rivers and canals. The history of the German waterways. DSV-Verlag Busse Seewald, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88412-243-6 .
cards
- W. Ciesla, H. Czesienski, W. Schlomm, K. Senzel, D. Weidner: Shipping maps of the inland waterways of the German Democratic Republic 1: 10,000. Volume I, editor: Wasserstraßenaufsichtsamt der GDR. Berlin 1988. OCLC 830889996
Web links
- Wettin lock on the WSA website , accessed on December 17, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory E, Ser. No. 51 of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration
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