Waterways and Shipping Authority Schweinfurt

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Waterways and Shipping Authority Schweinfurt
(WSA Schweinfurt)

State level Federation
position Local authority
Supervisory authority Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping
founding November 1, 1949
Headquarters Schweinfurt
Authority management Heinrich Schoppmann
Servants 388 (March 2013)
Web presence wsa-sw.wsv.de
Office of the WSA Schweinfurt

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

Jurisdiction

The Schweinfurt Waterways and Shipping Office makes the Main Federal Waterway available to inland shipping . Regionally, the WSA Schweinfurt is the responsible representative of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) for over 200 kilometers in the area from Rothenfels to Viereth . The more than 370 employees are spread over four outskirts ( Gemünden , Marktbreit , Volkach , Haßfurt ) with 19 locks, the Würzburg building yard and the Schweinfurt office with its three subject areas.

The legal basis

According to Article 89, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law , the Federal Republic of Germany is the owner of the federal waterways, which it manages through its own authorities - the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration. The activities of the administration are based on the Federal Waterways Act , the Inland Shipping Tasks Act and the Maritime Tasks Act .

Area of ​​responsibility

  • Maintenance of the Main (maintenance of a proper condition for water drainage and maintenance of navigability)
  • Operation of the federally owned shipping facilities (e.g. locks)
  • Electricity police - averting danger to maintain federal waterways in a condition required for shipping
  • Operation of the shipping signs
  • Water level and flood warning service
  • Ice fighting
  • Tree show
  • Bank repairs
  • Structural inspection
  • Control of the river bed
  • Monitoring of usage contracts
  • Workshop-related maintenance measures
  • Maintaining the operational readiness of locks, weirs, watercraft
  • Diver deployment planning

numbers, data, facts

  • Route length: 202 km from Rothenfels (Main-km 185.200) to Viereth (Main-km 387.690)
  • Barrages: 19, drop height of the locks between 2.75 m (Würzburg lock) and 7.60 m (Ottendorf lock)
  • Total difference in altitude: 89 m
  • Lock dimensions: length 300 m, width 12 m
  • Approved ships: single drivers and push convoys up to 190 m in length and 11.45 m in width
  • Goods transport per lock: on average approx. 6.6 million tons annually
  • Number of ships per lock: an average of around 7,500 per year

Small vehicle license plate

The small watercraft in the area of ​​the waterways and shipping office Schweinfurt are assigned small vehicle license plates with the identification SW .

See also

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 21 ″  E