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Geesthacht Weir and Fish Ladder

Geesthacht Weir and Fish Ladder

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Geesthacht Weir and Fish Ladder

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Location: Geesthacht, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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December 2, 2016

With a useful length of 250 meters and a width of 25 meters, the Geesthacht lock was built in 1957 to ensure an even draft between the lower and upper Elbe. So that the larger ships can pass between the Lower and Upper Elbe, the Lower Elbe was dredged to a water depth of 12 metres. However, the water level of the Upper Elbe must not become too shallow and the groundwater level of the Elbmarsch must not sink.
Since then, the lock with the lock canal has enabled shipping to overcome the gradient created by the weir. The barrage raises the Elbe level up to two meters above the previous average water level.
From the Elbe bridge you have an excellent view of the lively shipping traffic and the impressive technology of the lock. Not far from the lock is the barrage with the largest fish ladder in Europe. Here, too, you have a good overview from the Elbe bridge.
The lock is part of the technical tour along with other technical sights. With your bike you can go on an exciting discovery tour of Geesthacht's technical and industrial sights.

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Siegfried LG

December 19, 2016

The barrage of Geesthacht is impressive. There is an old fish ladder on the southern bank of the Elbe, but it was not suitable for larger fish. As an ecological compensation measure for the Moorburg power plant, in 2010 Vattenfall built Europe's largest fish ladder on the north side, next to the lock. This is very successful and it is hoped that the Atlantic sturgeon, along with salmon and eel, will be able to settle in the Elbe again.

The weir also serves to regulate the river. The tides are effective up to here, but no longer in the upper reaches.

Source:
geesthacht-elbe.de/machensw/technik/technik/geefischaufstieg.htm
geesthacht-elbe.de/machensw/technik/neue-fischtreppe/index.htm
kraftwerk-moorburg.hamburg/kraftwerk-moorburg/fischtreppe-geesthacht

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JR56

March 25, 2019

The barrage in Geesthacht consists of a weir, a lock, and two fish ladders.
It is the only weir in the German part of the Elbe. It was designed to counteract increasing erosion in the middle Elbe region and improve both navigability on the
Upper Elbe and the landscape conditions above the barrage. The Lower Elbe was deepened several times to accommodate seagoing vessels traveling to Hamburg. The Geesthacht pumped-storage power plant is located upstream of the barrage
and uses the Elbe as a lower reservoir. A hydroelectric power plant planned next to the weir
has not yet been built because economical power generation was not feasible at the required lower reservoir heights.
The sector weir, commissioned in 1960, has four openings, each 50 meters wide.
Sector gate valves control the water discharge. These hydrodynamically shaped hollow steel bodies are sunk into chambers in the weir foundation to allow more water to flow away, or raised to maintain the dam height of 4.00 meters. Ships pass through the weir via a lock with two parallel chambers. Two fishways increase the permeability for aquatic life: The one built in 1998 is 216 meters long; the more sophisticated fishway built in 2010 on the north bank is 550 meters long.

metropolregion.hamburg.de/industriekultur/schleusen/7278272/staustufe-geesthacht

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