Rhine–Herne Canal

The Rhine -Herne Canal ( RHK, water code: 74001 ) is a 45.4 km long federal waterway in the Ruhr area, North Rhine -Westphalia, with today five channels. He is managed by the Water and Shipping Authority Meiderich.

• 5.1 Factory port Rütgers in Duisburg
• 5.2 Heinz- Schleußer Marina in Oberhausen
• 5.3 Ölhafen King William
• 5.4 port Bottrop
• 5.5 City harbor food 5.5.1 Port Mathias Stinnes

Course

The Rhine -Herne canal leading from the Rhine to the Dortmund -Ems Canal. It branches off from the Duisburg port channel on the channel pool C at 0.16 km and connects the ports of Duisburg- Ruhrorter with the West German channel network. When the channel is 1.4 kilometers of connecting duct branches off to the Ruhr. From Oberhausen, the channel follows the south and largely parallel the Emscher straightened. A possible naming similar to the lip - side channel as " Emscher- side channel " is but unbekannnt.

History

The construction in the period from April 5, 1906 to July 17, 1914 lasted eight years and cost 60 million Reichsmark. He was led by the founded in 1906 " Royal Canal Construction Authority " in Essen. In some cases, particularly in Herne and Gelsenkirchen, the channel in the former bed of the river Emscher has been created, the course had shifted slightly by the previous straightening north. Plans to expand the Emscher into a waterway called Emscher canal had already presented William Thomas Mulvany in the second half of the 19th century in Dusseldorf. In a food Emscher sewer committee had been established in 1873.

1914, the canal was completed with an initial seven -channel levels. It was built for vessels up to 1350 tonnes. Ships of carrying capacity, which match the dimensions of the original canal locks are therefore referred to as the Rhine -Herne Canal vessels. The channel is one of the Duisburg- Ruhrorter ports to 5.6 km before its transition to the Dortmund -Ems Canal waterway to class Vb, IV to the remaining piece to the class

When channel profile and opportunities for all buildings have been provided to compensate for subsidence, as they are also actually become necessary later on a larger scale.

Originally, the Rhine -Herne Canal ended in Herne, where he met the branch channel of the Dortmund- Ems Canal from Henrichenburg to Herne Herne above the lock -east. With the decommissioning of the last part of the branch passage, the section from the channel port of the colliery Frederick the Great, plant 3/4 to finish off the Bahnhofstrasse, the section Henrichenburg -Herne in 1950 was added to the Rhine -Herne Canal. On the quiet and drained channel section east of the bridge over the railway station road to the bridge over the Landwehr Bach in Herne today runs the federal motorway 42 ( Emscherschnellweg ).

When route expansion between 1968-1995 Meiderich and tub Eickelmann bottlenecks were removed, flattened curves, and bridges angehoben.Bei the bank protection alternated sheet piling and embankment construction. Since 2010, expansion work will take place until the lock pan - Eickelmann in the area of ​​port Grimberg. Also above the lock Herne East the channel is to be deepened and widened. Largest construction is the construction of the Emscher passage. Some bridges also need to be rebuilt in larger span.

As part of the Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 in the Ruhr, the Rhine -Herne Canal was involved in numerous cultural events, major project this was the culture channel, which is also continued in 2011.

Drainage

The Rhine -Herne Canal is a member of the water supply system, which consists of the West German channels channels (dates - Hamm, Dortmund - Ems, Rhine - Herne and Wesel - dates) is formed. This network is not only the shipping for smuggling and the compensation for seepage and evaporations, but to a large extent, the public, agricultural and industrial water supply in the form of water use (cooling water for power plants) and water consumption. This need is met by taking one hand from the upper lip at the water transfer Hamm, also through the communication channel to the lower reaches of the Ruhr from the Ruhr and in exceptional cases, from the Rhine. On the other hand, is minimized by pumping back the smuggling of water consumption for shipping. For this purpose, the RHK was equipped 1958-1965 by its own pumping station chain with a return pump station at each channel level. Thus, the RHK had its own water available and no longer had to be supplied via the Wesel- dates channel and the lock Herne East. The first pumping stations had to be replaced due to the 1980-1994 construction of new locks; at the same time has been changed to more powerful units. The total water supply of West German channels is coordinated by the remote control center in dates since 1984.

Smuggle

The locks are used to overcome the height difference between the Rhine and the summit level Herne - Münster of the Dortmund- Ems Canal of 31.50 m plus the height of fall at the transfer depending on the Rhine water level.

Lock Meiderich

Main article → lock Meiderich

1980 Channel 0.82 kilometers today's lock was completed. It is the entrance gate of the channel, the 24 m high Untertor is a highly visible yellow landmark in the port and Ruhr landscape with the helm. Your sub-main was adapted to the sunken Rhine water levels. The outer harbor of the old lock can still be seen underwater on the masonry of the channel walls. As a reserve space for a possibly necessary construction of the lock it will not be filled.

The predecessor of today's lock was taken with the canal opening in 1914, in operation.

Instead of the old 165 m long and 10 m wide lock chamber the new chamber has a usable length of 190 m and a width of 12 m; hence large thrust associations with barges of Europe class II can pass through the lock.

The drop height is dependent on the Rhine water level. With the appropriate flood of the Rhine, the water level can rhine forward even be higher than in the channel, so that must not be funneled as usual mountain but to the valley in the channel. The lock does not have a pumping station but the pumps in the harbor basin of C Ruhrorter port provide for the return pumping the water into the canal.

The lock can be operated by one person. Here at the beginning of the channel is the lifting point for the user fees, the incoming and outgoing ships are registered. From here the Ruhr locks Duisburg and Raffelberg be controlled. Approximately 19,000 ships with a total of 15 million tonnes of cargo passed 2010 Meidericher lock.

The canal stage was equipped with only a lock, since the function of a second the nearby Ruhr lock Duisburg can take over.

Lock group Oberhausen

Main article → lock group Oberhausen

Is the lock group Oberhausen to channel 5.68 kilometers. The current channel level bridge a height difference of 4.10 m and has two locks. The southern gate was built between 1977 and 1979 and has a working length of 190 m and a working width of 11.99 m. The northern gate was completed after two years of construction on 28 July 1984, has a working length of 190 m and also a useful width of 11.88 m.

Former lock group food Dellwig

In the district of Essen Dellwig the third stage of the Rhine - Herne Canal was with two locks, as in all stages of the channel except Meiderich. Each lock has a length of 165 m and a width of 10 m. The locks were closed with folding doors in the head and sliding gates in sub-main. Because of subsidence stage Dellwig 1980 was abandoned.

Lock group Gelsenkirchen

Main article → lock group Gelsenkirchen

The lock system Gelsenkirchen is located at 23.32 km canal and bridge a height difference of 6.20 m. Today's lock group was built between 1980 and 1985 and consists of two locks. Both have effective lengths of 190 m. The North Lock is designed for a working width of 12.10 m, at the Südschleuse the useful width is 11.94 m. Headwater side have both locks Hubsenktore, underwater sided miter gates. The opening of the upper gate takes 55 seconds to open the sub- gate only 35 seconds are required.

Lock group tub Eickelmann

Main article: lock group tub Eickelmann

The lock group tub Eickelmann is 31.20 kilometers canal and bridges a drop height of 8.40 m. This plant consists of two locks, which only displays the Südschleuse was rebuilt and aligned to the needs of today's inland waterways.

Both locks were built during the construction of the canal 1906-1914 and had a usable length of 165 m and a width of 10 m. In the lock chambers so found two of the prevailing types of ship, 80 m long, 9.5 m wide and 2.5 m had depth, space. Today the north lock in this initial size is obtained, it is however not used at the time. For ships of Europe ship class II they would be too small.

The Südschleuse was rebuilt in 1994 and has a usable length of 190 m and a width of 12 m. The new direction of the North Lock is planned.

The lock group tub is Eickelmann station on two thematic routes the Route of Industrial Culture: Erzbahn - Emscherbruch and canals and waterways.

The new southern gate from from underwater, with the control room for the plant's control

The abandoned northern gate to the frame for guiding the lifting door to the underwater

Headwater of the plant, right a freighter with wood chips in the background the coal-fired power plant STEAG

Former lock group Herne - West

The former lock group Herne - West channel at 35.25 km was mitersetzt at renewal of the sluice gates Herne East and 1991 eliminated. For this, the channel section Herne -West was deepened to Herne East by 4.5 m and the lowered the water level of the attitude Tub Eickelmann.

The old lock was no longer sufficient for the size of modern vessels and pushed convoys in length and width. The building fabric itself was severely damaged and outdated by subsidence. In the course of the degradation of the locks the outer walls of the two lock chambers are preserved. In particular, the southern wall of the measures to compensate for the subsidence are still clearly visible. The chamber wall had to be increased but at the eastern end by 3.5 m at the western end by 80 cm. This can be seen in the panoramic image on the difference between brick masonry and reinforced concrete increase.

These locks are on the Sekundus jump. In planning the channel that was known, but it was assumed that this is where subsidence would not take place, because in the jump area no coal should be dismantled.

Lock Herne East

Main article: lock Herne East

The sluice gates Herne East channel at 37.26 km has been renewed as a twin lock in the years 1986 to 1992. The new lock chambers are each 190 m long and 12 m wide. The threshold depth ( water depth at the upper gate) is 4 m. For headwater a Drehsegmenttor forms the conclusion. Miter gates close the chambers from the underwater. The difference between the upper and lower water is 12.8 m. A smuggling takes about 14 minutes - not counting inputs and Ausfahrzeiten the ships. The two lock chambers are connected so that the water that drains one chamber can be used for filling the others, occurred to a tie. The second half of the water is then discharged into the underwater and the other half full chamber is filled from the top water. In this way, the water consumption per Smuggling is halved. Since a channel is a stagnant water and no flow, the water loss of the upper water at the locks must be compensated by pumping back again consuming.

Herne lock - east, headwater

Herne lock - east, lock chamber

Herne lock - east, View of the underwater

All images in the gallery:

The left picture shows from the lock system from underwater, the outer harbor, which is used by waiting ships, the lock system to the two lower gates and the helm that resembles an airport tower. The chambers are structures made of reinforced concrete with a brick facing the view page. The gate of the southern chamber is open. The extension end of the motor ship " Carina " comes from Decin in the Czech Republic. The water level difference in the chamber can be at the wet algae left ventricular wall estimate ( 12.8 m). At the top of the screen the bridge of Horsthauser road over the canal. On the shore right several anglers who like to use the abundance of fish in the lock system.

The image of the upper water chamber on the left shows the southern to the upper gate. The northern chamber ( right) is open the exit. To open this gate is lowered to a close above the Drempels axis lying against the upper water. The entrance and exit of vessels is controlled by traffic lights. The lock master alone can remotely control the entire system, as installed at all major points of television cameras. In the chamber on the right: motor ship Aurora in front of the exit.

The third picture shows the open water to the upper chamber after the exit of the second ship of the observed lock gear - motor vessel Bydgoszcz in Poland.

The right picture shows the channel course to the west front the outer harbor, the above-mentioned road bridge, then a corn mill and its silo on Recklinghäuser area, to the left and about 5 km from the coal power plant STEAG in Herne district of Baucau. Both banks of the canal are lined with paved roads that are frequently used by walkers and cyclists.

Ports

Work port Rütgers in Duisburg

The private port Rutgers serves the tanker industry. It is located at 4.25 km channel on the northern bank of the canal to the west of the abutment of the former bridge on the Gartroper road.

Heinz- Schleußer Marina in Oberhausen

The Heinz Schleußer - Marina is a 2004 eröffneter marina in short distance to CentrO. The port has a water depth of 2.5 meters and over 13 bridges with 60 berths. Immediately adjacent to the marina is the Sealife Oberhausen, the swimming pool " Aquapark " and the building of espionage exhibition " TOP SECRET, the secret world of espionage in Oberhausen " ( former Modellbahnwelt Oberhausen ).

Ölhafen King William

The Ölverladehafen located in Essen- Dellwig channel between 14.35 and 14.68 km. It is used by the Green Power Oil, based in Bremerhaven, a manufacturer and marketer of vegetable oils and by-products and derived products with a tank farm just south behind the docks.

Port Bottrop

The harbor Bottrop was built in 1914 and operated for a long time by the port and rail operations of the Ruhr coal AG. After his connection had been lost to the colliery railways of the northern Ruhr area by the pit closures in importance, it became the hub for fuel oil, diesel, cyclohexane, methanol and xylene. Operator is the Ruhr Oel GmbH, which also owns the local fuel depot. The harbor area is divided into two areas, I haven has 90 meters of quay with two hubs, port II 320 meter quay length and four hubs. At the eastern end of the port, opposite the town harbor food and right on the bridge of the A 42 is the mooring site camaraderie of the Marine Bottrop.

City harbor food

The harbor food was taken as the youngest harbor on the Rhine -Herne Canal in 1934 by the city of Essen in operation since 1987 and is operated by Stadtwerke Essen. The port consists of an engraving dock in a straight angle to the canal and a parallel port along the channel, which together have a water surface of 63,000 m². The main goods handled are solid and mineral fuels, petroleum and chemical products and quarrying, iron and steel.

Mathias Stinnes port

The port of the former colliery Mathias Stinnes is located on the north bank of the channel. He lost with their decommissioning its function. All technical facilities have been removed, only the quay wall was preserved. The port range is used by anglers. In the picture to the right of the chimney of the RWE energy from waste plant food Karnap, the (smaller) chimney on the left part of the WWTP Bottrop.

Port of the BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH

The refinery port of BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH is divided in two with a western basin parallel to the channel and to this open, with four berths at the quay wall and an eastern harbor for two ships. During the loading of refined products tankers have a compressed air oil lock is active. From these ports are shipped with four million tonnes of 33% of the total production of the work. Greatest proportion of these fuels.

Port city of Gelsenkirchen

Main article: Port Gelsenkirchen

The port city of Gelsenkirchen was opened in July 1914 and is the oldest port on the Rhine -Herne Canal. The port branches off as a stub port with two docks at the top of the outer harbor lock Gelsenkirchen and has a water surface area of ​​117,800 m². Operating company is the Gelsenkirchen port mbH, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Gelsenkirchen. The port is divided into an industrial port and a trading port. In addition to other goods, mainly petroleum and steel products as well as malt and grain are handled at the port of Gelsenkirchen. The envelope of the port is 1.2 million tons per year.

Port Hugo

The port of the former Zeche Hugo consists of a channel to open towards the harbor basin, which is backward separated with a sheet pile wall. The former port facilities are completely removed. In the background is one of the sites for the new Emscher canal.

Port Count Bismarck

At the port of the former Zeche Graf Bismarck the driveway bridging railway bridge has been replaced by a pedestrian and cycle bridge. The stripped mine site is currently being built up with a settlement of small apartment buildings. Reuse of the port is not recognized at the time.

Port Grimberg

The port Grimberg lies on the southern bank of the canal in Gelsenkirchen, near the outskirts of Herne. It was named after the nearby castle Grimberg, of whom are now known, only the foundation walls. He served mainly to Erzanlandung for the supply of iron and steel plants in Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. Here the ore railway began (Bochum). With the closure of the steel mills, he lost his original function. Today he serves building materials and recycling plants for processing and shipping of their products.

To bind the path on the rail trail to the road network north of the canal, the Grimberger sickle between the harbor and the zoo was built. The official inauguration of the bridge took place in a ceremony on 26 October 2008.

West Harbour tub

After the docks of Wanner west harbor was filled to make room for the freight center Emscher, the West Harbour consists only of a quay wall with loading equipment for bulk commodities such as coal and sand, for example. It is operated by the pan - Herner railway and port.

East Harbour tub

The East Harbour is operated as the West Port of the pan - Herner Eisenbahn GmbH and port. This scrap is a major Umschlaggut.

City harbor Recklinghausen

Originally, the city of Recklinghausen had no access to the channel, as the city border in the south largely followed the course of the Emscher. Only through an acquisition of territory of the city of Herne, it was possible to create the port city of Recklinghausen in urban areas. After initial profitability of the port was abandoned several years ago. Just an old port crane testified nor the former function. Through new funding projects develop in recent years, both commercial and recreational activities.

Bauhafen the Waterways and Shipping Administration of the Federal

The Bauhafen Herne the Waterways and Shipping Office Meiderich was recreated as part of the deepening of the channel here. It serves the Waterways and Shipping Administration for the maintenance of the canal with its locks and pumping stations in the area of food to Herne. Maintenance and repair works are carried out from here.

Port Frederick the Great

The Port Frederick the Great was originally used for loading the coal mine of the same name and loading of steel parts of situated on the edge of the mine site Peine steel trade (temporarily was the colliery property of Ilseder hut in Peine ). On the quay there was until 2008 still a railway siding, which is no longer used after the closure of the mine. The rails were removed and the area is now used trucks for parking. East of the harbor basin has focused on the industrial estate " Frederick the Great ", a steel trading company settled that regardless of the weather uses the channel for their logistics with a covered loading facility. The port is part of the Herne sea, to which the sun and the marina, which Schleusenvorhafen and now also used as a marina port of the former colliery King Ludwig belong. In the area of ​​Herne sea is, according to a worker employed with basic investigations drill crews with about nine meters and the deepest point of the channel.

Port Louis

The port served the coal sales, but also the material delivery of the former colliery King Ludwig. It is channel 38 kilometers on the upper waters of the lock Herne east, on the north side opposite the harbor of the colliery Frederick the Great. The 1.7 -acre harbor was built from December 1897 to 1898, as the portion of the channel (then branch channel of the Dortmund- Ems Canal ) was already flooded. 1912 tons of cargo were handled at the port bill 360 096. 1913, the harbor was expanded. Because of subsidence, the sea wall had to be increased in 1954 by 2.50 m. In the 1980s, the automobile and motor boat Sports Club Castrop -Rauxel eV leased the disused harbor area of the Ruhr coal AG and operates it ever since as a harbor for pleasure boats.

At the port, the König-Ludwig- route starts, one for pedestrians and cyclists converted old industrial railway track. She joined the eponymous King Ludwig mine to the port.

Victor harbor

The Port Victor was created as a working port of the former colliery Victor. The port is located on the city of Castrop -Rauxel near Castle Bladenhorst. Even today, the port serves the coal handling, which is accomplished by the use of two gantry cranes.

Port Rütgers

The port Rütgerswerke Rutgers Chemicals (founded by Julius Rutgers ) is close to the port Victor on the east side of the channel which makes a slight bend to the north here. The Rütgerswerke deal with the tar chemistry. Excessive amount of main product is Pitch obtained from coal tar. The port has a compressed air oil boom.

Port Luck

The port Luck is part of the construction and building materials company Luck.

Port knob / Marmorit

The Port of building materials producers Knauf GmbH Marmorit is more of a pier as a whole harbor. It is located on the north side of Kanalseitenarms east of the bridge Wartburgstrasse in Castrop -Rauxel.

Outer harbor of the old lift Henrichenburg

Here ends at channel 45.6 kilometers of the Rhine -Herne Canal and enters the Dortmund -Ems Canal. The outer harbor is used as a mooring for pleasure boats and museum ships. The elevator itself is not in operation. It is part of the sluice parks Waltrop in the Route of Industrial Culture - canals and waterways. Right in the background connects the bridge in the B 235, which Castrop -Rauxel with dates.

Freight on the Rhine -Herne Canal

• Coal
• Ores
• Mineral oil
• Chemical Products
• Scrap
• Building materials
• Food
• Tree trunks

Fish in the Rhine -Herne Canal

• Rare: pike and rainbow trout
• European eel, perch, carp and perch
• Fried fish: bream, roach and rudd

Cities on the Rhine -Herne Canal

• Duisburg
• Oberhausen
• Food
• Bottrop
• Gelsenkirchen
• Herne
• Recklinghausen
• Castrop -Rauxel
• Waltrop ( confluence with the Dortmund -Ems Canal )
• Dates (Dortmund -Ems Canal )