Friedrichssegen hydropower plant
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 18 '27 " N , 7 ° 38' 44" E | |
| country | Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| place | Lahnstein -Friedrichssegen | |
| Waters | Lahn | |
| Kilometers of water | km 132.8 | |
| power plant | ||
| operator | Süwag energy | |
| construction time | 1906-07 | |
| Start of operation | 1909 | |
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| Average height of fall |
2.9 m | |
| Expansion flow | 37.5 m³ / s | |
| Turbines | 3 Kaplan turbines | |
| Generators | 3 alternators | |
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The Friedrichssegen hydropower plant is a listed run-of-river power plant on the Lahn . It was built in 1906-07 and commissioned in 1909. It is one of a total of eight hydropower plants on the Lahn that are operated by Süwag Energie AG .
location
The power plant is located on an approx. 500 m long upper water canal of the Lahn at river kilometer 132.8 before Friedrichssegen, a district of Lahnstein .
history
The power plant was built as a mine power plant to supply the nearby Friedrichssegen mine with electrical energy for mining, extraction, ventilation, dewatering, etc. After the mine was closed in 1913, Main-Kraftwerke AG acquired the hydropower plant, which from then on supplied the cities of Ober- and Niederlahnstein with electrical energy. Modifications and expansions took place in the 1930s and 1972/73. Today the operator of the plant is the Süwag Energie AG , which was created in 2001 through the merger of the Main power plants and other energy suppliers. The power plant can be visited in the summer months, there are guided tours once a week.
technology
The power plant is driven by three Kaplan turbines from Escher, Wyss & Cie. from Ravensburg with an output of 295 kW each. The connected three-phase generators from Felten & Guilleaume-Lahmeyerwerke , Frankfurt am Main , are designed as salient pole machines and therefore so-called "slow runners". The average annual electricity generation is 4.8 million kWh.
architecture
The partly plastered brick building rests on massive reinforced concrete foundations. A rectangular crossbar lies over the turbine duct on which the machine house rests. A control room and a transformer substation extend to the west. To the east is another building, which has the symbol of mallets and iron for mining under its gable . It used to house a boiler system that drove a steam turbine in order to be able to supply energy to the mine even when the water was low or high. A tall brick chimney next to the building still bears witness to the former steam operation.
The interior of the machine house is illuminated through high window and door openings. Tracks for a 10,000 kg manual crane rest on wall pilasters , with ribbon windows above them. An iron framework construction supports the wooden roof.
gallery
Upper water and floating debris rake
Machine house
Electric generator (salient pole machine)
control room
Underwater
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- Rainer Slotta : Technical monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany / 4. The metal ore mining / Part 2 , Dt. Mining Museum, Bochum 1983. DNB 860008053
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 56 (PDF; 6.2 MB).
- ↑ a b Historic hydropower plant Friedrichssegen on the homepage of the city of Lahnstein ( Memento from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Intervention analysis and evaluation of the quality components according to OGewV and WFD Appendix V Supplements to the water law application for reactivation of the Bad Ems hydropower site from January 23, 2012
