Scharnebeck twin ship lift

The boat lift Lüneburg is part of the northern channel of the two stages of the Federal Waterways Elbe Lateral Canal, for which the Waterways and Shipping Office Uelzen is responsible. The Elbe Lateral Canal connects the Elbe at Artlenburg with the Mittelland Canal at Edesbüttel west of Wolfsburg. The elevator was established in 1974, built as the then world 's largest at the foot of the moraine edge to Elbmarsch Scharnebeck, northeast of Lüneburg and nine kilometers south of the Elbe. The first ship passed the ship lift with the partial release of the channel between the Elbe and the harbor Lüneburg on 5 December 1975.

It can be visited by several promenades well and in conjunction with the nearby Museum, a popular tourist destination. Visit per year, approximately 500,000 visitors the elevator.

Specifications

  • Design: double vertical lift with counterweights and 2 independently operating troughs in each 4 guide storms
  • Construction costs: 190 million DM (after retrofitting )
  • Head: up to 38 m (depending on the water level of the Elbe)
  • Trough dimensions: effective length / useful width / threshold depth 100 m / 11.8 m / 3.38 m ( actual length between the gates = 105.6 m)
  • Trough gates and keeping goals in the head and lower head are lifting gates
  • Torschutzeinrichtungen: The motors attached to the trough gates arresting wires to protect against ship collisions shorten the usable length for shipping to 100 m
  • Total weight of the water-filled trough: 5,800 t
  • Total weight of the moving parts of a trough (including water): approximately 11,800 t
  • Weight of a counterweight sheaves of heavy concrete (224 pieces per tray ): approximately 26.5 tons ( 5,936 t Total counterweight per trough )
  • Dimensions of a counterweight sheave 6.8 m × 3.4 m × 0.32 m
  • Thickness of 240 steel cables per tray: 54 mm
  • Drive a trough: Four electric motors, each with 160 kW
  • Duration of a Hebe-/Senkvorgangs: 3 minutes
  • Duration of a transit (including entry and exit ): 15-20 minutes
  • Performance of the pumping station to supply water to the canal from the Elbe: 6.75 m³ / s

Saw the ship lift from the upper water

38 m is the maximum difference between the upper and lower water ( head)

View from the upper water in the western trough

West view with two troughs full length

GMS Dorle from Lüneburg in subsiding trough

GMS Lower 04003680 same direction discontinued

Screw the adjusting ropes and counterweights

Boat lift under construction September 1971 - Northern towers nearing completion

Boat lift under construction September 1971 - looking east retaining wall to the upper water

Boat lift under construction September 1971 - Southern towers before the retaining wall toward the upper hand - concreting with climbing formwork

Boat lift under construction September 1971 - connection to the underwater overlooking the intake structure to the pump house

Name

Although the official name is Lüneburg ship lift, it will ship locally Scharnebeck called because of the proximity to the parish Scharnebeck.

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