Waterways and Shipping Office Lübeck

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Waterways and Shipping Office Lübeck
(WSA Lübeck)

State level Federation
position Local authority
Supervisory authority Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping
founding 1949
Headquarters Lübeck-St. Gertrud
Authority management Henning Dierken
Web presence wsa-hl.wsv.de

The Waterways and Shipping Office Lübeck (WSA Lübeck) is a waterways and shipping office in Germany. It belongs to the service area of ​​the General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping , formerly Waterways and Shipping Directorate North .

The reform of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV), which has been planned since the 2010s, provides for the two waterways and shipping offices of Stralsund and Lübeck to be merged into a new Baltic Sea waterway and shipping office as a so-called Revieramt, although both locations are to be retained .

Area of ​​responsibility

The Lübeck Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for the area of ​​the Baltic Sea from the Danish border near Flensburg to the border with the administrative area of ​​the Waterways and Shipping Office Stralsund in Buk near Kühlungsborn in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as the adjacent waters, etc. a. the Trave from Lübeck .

The multi-purpose and water protection ship Scharhörn is subordinate to the Lübeck Waterways and Shipping Office .

tasks

Control tower of the Travemünde traffic center of the WSA Lübeck

The tasks of the Waterways and Shipping Office Lübeck include:

  • Maintenance and expansion of federal waterways in the official area
  • Maintenance and operation of the floating and fixed sea ​​marks in the official area; the sea sign motor ship Seeadler serves this purpose in particular
  • Order and safety of shipping and operation of the traffic control center in Travemünde
  • Takeover of electricity and shipping police tasks
  • Maintenance of the naval bases in Eckernförde, Kiel, Neustadt and Warnemünde
  • Operation and maintenance of the lift bridge over the Trave.

Outskirts

The Lübeck Waterways and Shipping Office includes the suburbs of Kiel with the Kappeln base , the Wismar suburb , the Lübeck suburb with the Heiligenhafen base and the building yard in Lübeck.

Traffic control center

The Lübeck Waterways and Shipping Office maintains a traffic control center in Travemünde , from which shipping traffic on the entire western Baltic Sea within the sphere of influence of the Federal Republic of Germany is monitored and controlled around the clock.

The Stralsund Waterways and Shipping Office with its traffic center in Warnemünde is responsible for the eastern part of the German Baltic Sea coast .

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeck or Stralsund: Who will be in charge of the Baltic Sea in the future?
  2. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: More and more tasks with fewer and fewer resources · Stralsund and Lübeck are to merge to form the "Waterways and Shipping Office Baltic Sea" . In: Daily port report from October 8, 2015, p. 1/2
  3. ↑ Thomas Luczak: “We cannot overturn laws” , Ostsee-Zeitung , February 6, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2018.
  4. ^ Henning Dierken: New traffic control center in Travemünde . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 2/2014, pp. 48/49.
  5. ↑ Verkehrszentrale Travemünde , Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Lübeck, accessed on July 9, 2018.
  6. ^ H. Dierken: New building of the traffic control center (VKZ) Travemünde In: Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering (BAW) (Ed.): The designed engineering structure - quality optimization in design and execution . Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering (BAW), Karlsruhe, 2012, pp. 41–45 (PDF, 552 kB).
  7. ^ The traffic center of WSA Stralsund in Warnemünde , waterways and shipping office Stralsund , accessed on July 9, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 47 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 34"  E