Voss Canal

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Voss Canal
The Voss Canal near Liebenwalde

The Voss Canal near Liebenwalde

abbreviation VoK
location GermanyGermany Brandenburg
length 14 km
Built 1880-1882
Expanded 1971
class Inland waterway class II
Historical precursors Vossgraben
Used river Havel
Ascent North
Competent authority WSA Eberswalde
course
   
 16.00 Upper Havel waterway
   
 15.95 Zehdenick lock
   
 15.92 Lock bridge
   
 15.75 Hasty bridge
   
 15.10 Kampbrücke
   
 14.90 Discharge Schnell Havel with weir
   
   
 10.65 Road bridge
   
   
 4.53 Bischofswerder lock
   
 4.53 Lock bridge
   
   
 1.95 Old arm with feed mill
   
   
 0.84 Thürenbrücke
   
 0.00 Finow Canal (Langer Trödel)

The Voss Canal , official abbreviation VoK , is an approximately 14-kilometer-long artificial waterway in the German state of Brandenburg. The canal is part of the Upper Havel waterway and belongs to waterway class II. Responsible is the Eberswalde Waterways and Shipping Office with the Zehdenick suburb (ABZ Zehdenick).

history

The Voss Canal has its origin in the old Vossgraben, which was originally not navigable. This trench formed a short connection from the Faulen Havel to the Schnellen Havel . It was built around 1780. The old Vossgraben was used to supply water to the western part of the historic Finow Canal . Inland boatmen and raftsmen used the Havel, also known as the Schnell Havel, which flows in many bends with greatly varying widths and sometimes insufficient depths between Zehdenick and Liebenwalde . Year after year several thousand barges and rafts passed this river in spite of the poor conditions.

Already in the years 1823 to 1826 the Vossgraben was made navigable and the Voss lock and the Speisearche were built. Furthermore, the "Faule Havel" above Liebenwalde was dammed and two free arks were created. When the construction work was completed, the "Lazy Havel" above and the Schnellen Havel below Liebenwalde were abandoned as a shipping route. The Krewelin lock and the Bischofswerder lock as well as the Zehdenick building yard arche were built as further necessary structures . It serves to transfer the level peaks of the Havel into the "Schnell Havel". The free arche near Höpen serves to drain the flood of the Dölln river coming from the Schorfheide . These facilities, including the approximately 14-kilometer-long canal, were completed within two and a half years from spring 1880 to autumn 1882. The name Vosskanal, previously only used for a small canal between the Finow Canal near Liebenwalde and the "Schnellen Havel" near Bischofswerder, has now been transferred to the entire new canal. During the construction period of the Voss Canal between Zehdenick and Liebenwalde, the Zehdenick lock was renewed at the same time .

The waterway was of great importance for the development of Berlin. In the period before the First World War , around 1.75 million tons of bricks were transported each year on the Voss Canal for the expansion of Berlin. In the 1930s, the cross-section of the canal was enlarged and the Krewelin lock and the Bischofswerder lock were partially built to benefit shipping. In 1969 and 1970, measures to regulate the discharge conditions of the Havel water south of Zehdenick were carried out to improve the yield security of agriculture and the Schnell Havel was relieved of long-lasting flood situations. Since then, the Havel water has been discharged via the Voss Canal.

The Voss Canal was used by shipping until 1971 in this expansion stage. From 1971 onwards, there were extensive deepening of the bottom and water level increases. These construction measures made the Krewelin lock redundant and dismantled. The kilometering of the Voss Canal begins at the confluence of the Finow Canal, called Langer Trödel , and goes to Berg, to the north and continues in the Upper Havel waterway.

Locks

There were originally two locks in the Voss Canal, the Bischofswerder lock and the Krewelin lock. The Krewelin lock was dismantled in 1971 as part of the canal expansion.

place Name of the lock Kilometers of waterways Dimensions (chamber length / chamber width / gate width / drop height) Open to traffic / year of construction / renovation / decommissioning image Coordinates
f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the bridges: OSM | WikiMap
Krewelin, Zehdenick Krewelin lock OHW 11.35 L approx. 40 / W 6.30 m; on one side a 16.80 meter long bulge. The resulting width of 10.30 meters was used to accommodate a tug during the lock process. Built in 1880/82, demolished in 1971 Lock krewelin.svg cards
Bischofswerder, Liebenwalde Bischofswerder lock OHW 4.53
(Voss Canal)		 L 85.0 m / W 10.6 m / drop height 3.3 m 1991 (today's lock) Vosskanal-Schleuse-Bischhofswerder-15-01-2008-229.JPG cards

bridges

Six bridges cross the water between the Zehdenick lock and the Liebenwalde lock .

  • Thüren Bridge km 0.84
  • Bischofswerder lock bridges km 4.53
  • Krewelin road bridge km 10.65
  • Kampbrücke km 15.10
  • Hast Bridge km 15.75
  • Zehdenick lock bridge km 15.92

literature

  • H.-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, p. 167 ff. ISBN 3-344-00115-9 .
  • 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

cards

  • Folke Stender: Editing of Sportschifffahrtskarten inland 1. Nautical publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .
  • 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 4. Waterway Inspectorate of the GDR (ed.), Berlin 1988, OCLC 830889996 .

Web links

Commons : Vosskanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '24 "  N , 13 ° 21' 51"  E