Woltersdorf old canal
| Woltersdorf old canal | |
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 (21) Woltersdorf Old Canal |
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| abbreviation | WAK |
| location | Germany: Brandenburg |
| Beginning | branching off from the Elbe-Havel Canal north of Wusterwitz |
| The End | Confluence with the Wendsee near Plaue |
| Descent structures | Plaue lock |
| Historical precursors | Plauer Canal |
| Competent authority | WSA Brandenburg |
| Navigable only in the underwater of the Plaue lock | |
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The Woltersdorfer Altkanal ( WAK ) is a waterway in the west of the state of Brandenburg .
description
Like other old canals, the Woltersdorfer Altkanal is part of the former Plau Canal , which was built between 1743 and 1745 . It is its former eastern end. The Plauer Canal initially had a width of 10 to 15 meters, a depth of 1.10 meters to 1.25 meters, so that it was used by ships with a length of 36.10 meters, a width of up to 4.00 meters and a draft of up to 0.90 meters could be driven. The carrying capacity of these ships was around 50 tons. In the 19th century the Plauer Canal was expanded twice. First from 1862 to 1866 and then from 1883 to 1891, so that the width was 26.00 meters and the depth was 2.00 meters. This enabled the waterway that connects the Havel with the Elbeassociation with maximum ship sizes of 65.00 meters in length, 8.00 meters in width and 1.60 meters in draft. Such ships had a carrying capacity of around 600 tons. Between 1926 and 1938, the Plauer Canal and the Ihle Canal were expanded to form the Elbe-Havel Canal over long distances . During this expansion, new, more straight lines with larger radii of curvature of no less than 1000 meters were chosen over sections, so that in some cases new sections were selected and old sewers were created.
One such new course of the Elbe-Havel Canal is that north of the municipality of Wusterwitz . The resulting Woltersdorfer old sewer is to as subterranean channel to the water level control of the channel portion Zerben used -Wusterwitz. For this purpose, two rifle weirs were installed , one in the head of the Plaue lock and a second north of Wusterwitz near the junction from the Elbe-Havel Canal. Below the Plaue lock, the old canal serves as a berth for ships and boats. Three bridge structures lead over the canal, a pedestrian bridge each over the north and south chambers of the Plauer lock and a road bridge near Woltersdorf . Despite its navigability restricted by the weirs, the canal is a federal waterway over its entire length of around 3.5 kilometers and is the responsibility of the outskirts of Genthin of the Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elbe-Havel Canal. Historical development. In: wsa-brandenburg.wsv.de. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Sebastian Kinder, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . A geographical inventory in the area of Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (= Landscapes in Germany. Values of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 254 .
- ↑ Bridges. In: wsa-brandenburg.wsv.de. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Genthin suburb. In: wsa-brandenburg.wsv.de. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 18.7 ″ E