Klingenberg barrage
| Klingenberg barrage | ||
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 Klingenberg barrage with lock and power station |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 46 '44 " N , 9 ° 10' 56" E | |
| Country: | Germany / Bavaria | |
| Place: | Klingenberg am Main | |
| Waters: | Main | |
| Water kilometers : | km 113.050 | |
| Data | ||
| Responsible WSA : | WSA Aschaffenburg | |
| Start of planning: | 1927 | |
| Start of operation: | 1931 | |
| Renovation: | 2012 | |
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| Type: | Chamber lock | |
| Category: | Va | |
| Usable length: | 300.71 m | |
| Usable width: | 12.05 m | |
| Height upstream : | 120.52 m above sea level NN | |
| Average height of fall : |
4.00 m | |
| Upper gate: | Miter gate | |
| Lower gate: | Miter gate | |
| Others | ||
| Associated weir: | Main weir Klingenberg | |
| Associated power plant: | Klingenberg hydropower plant | |
| Was standing: | May 2016 | |
The barrage Klingenberg is a barrage of River Main in Main kilometers 113.05 in Klingenberg am Main . It dams the Main over a length of 9.310 km (Heubach lock near Großheubach ). The next lock down the Main is just 12 kilometers away in Kleinwallstadt .
history
Until the middle of the 19th century, the Main was a mostly sluggishly flowing shallow body of water with many loops, bends, islands and often several shallow river arms next to each other. Due to the mean water correction, which was completed by 1885, the situation improved, but shipping on the Main could only be maintained competitively through chain shipping (1886 to 1936). Chain tugs pulled several attached barges upstream on a chain lying lengthways in the river, whereby the shipping traffic normally did not have to be interrupted either by the strong currents in the winter months or by the low water levels in the summer months of sometimes less than 50 cm.
In parallel to the chain shipping, the expansion of the Main was advanced through the construction of barrages. It took place in several steps upstream. The Klingenberg barrage is in the third construction phase, which was realized between 1926 and 1941. The excess excavated material from the construction of the facility was used to fill a flood dam to protect the old town from future floods. The structure was completed in 1930 and commissioned in 1931.
Building
The barrage includes a weir system, a chamber lock, a boat lock, a fish ladder and a power station. Stylistically, this building is based on the functional design language of the Bauhaus and has been preserved in this form. The barrage is part of the " Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main ".
Weir system
The weir system consists of three cylindrical gates made of steel, each of which is supported by mighty concrete weir pillars standing in the river. The sinking rollers are each about 35 m wide and are electrically controlled. The roller gates can be lifted up out of the river at high tide. An iron weir walkway for maintenance work runs above the weir .
lock
The chamber lock is on the left side of the river and is 300.71 m long and 12.05 m wide. The Main is approved for vehicles / associations with a length of 90.00 m and a width of 11.45 m (the permitted length may be up to 110.00 m for a vehicle and up to 190.00 for an association m can be increased if the vehicle and the formation are equipped with an active bow steering device and a voice connection between the steering position and the tip of the vehicle or formation).
In April 2012, the lock basin was drained as part of maintenance work and the originally riveted lock gates were replaced by welded lock gates. For the installation of the 6.70 meter high gates, shipping on the Main had to be blocked for several weeks. The lock chamber is filled and emptied via 2 circulating gates.
Directly next to the chamber lock there was originally a self-service boat lock with a usable width of 2.50 m and a usable length of 11.60 m. The upper gate of the boat lock is designed as a folding gate , while the lower gate is a slap gate . This boat lock is out of order.
power plant
The run-of-river power plant belonging to the barrage is located on the right side of the river and has been in operation since 1930. The power plant belongs to Rhein-Main-Donau AG and is operated by Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH . With a drop height of 4 meters, the two Kaplan turbines generate an output of 3.04 MW , which corresponds to a standard energy capacity of 18.6 GWh per year.
Incidents
On May 23, 1959 there was a ship accident at the lock in Klingenberg caused by the motor ship "Centrust I". On May 23, 2011, an inadequately secured, corn-laden motor ship damaged the lower lock gate.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Klingenberg: Official Gazette No. 14 , April 12, 2012
- ^ City of Klingenberg (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Klingenberg . tape 2 .
- ↑ a b c d Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Süd, WSA Aschaffenburg: Technical data for the Klingenberg barrage (as of 2014)
- ↑ a b Anita Kuisle: Discover industrial culture - a journey through Bavaria. In: EDITION Bayern # 5 special issue: Industrial culture in Bavaria. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, 2012, p. 113 , accessed on May 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Route atlas of the Main. Part I: from km 0 (mouth of the Main) to km 187 (Rothenfels barrage). (No longer available online.) Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV), 2015, archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Locks are currently being repaired. In: fnweb, the news portal for the Odenwald-Tauber district. April 12, 2012, Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Boat locks on the Main, MDK and Danube. (No longer available online.) In: Electronic Waterways Information Service (ELWIS). Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, archived from the original on May 28, 2016 ; accessed on May 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of power plants. (No longer available online.) Rhein-Main-Donau AG, archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; accessed on May 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ship accident caused by the motor ship "Centrust I" at the Trennfurt lock (Klingenberg a. Main, Miltenberg district) on May 23, 1959 - German Digital Library. In: www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Retrieved May 8, 2016 .
- ↑ The ship drives towards the lock gate in Klingenberg. In: MainEcho. May 23, 2011, accessed May 24, 2016 .
