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Ahsen Lock

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    Location: Datteln, Kreis Recklinghausen, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    June 19, 2017

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    At the beginning or at the end, take a break and watch the ships slip.
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    March 31, 2019

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    The lock Ahsen belongs to the fifth of the six channel stages of the Wesel-Datteln-Kanal and overcomes a height difference of 7.50 meters. The large lock was built between 1925 …
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    From the Rhine, the Ahsen locks belong to the fifth of the six canal stages of the Wesel-Datteln Canal (WDK) at canal kilometer 55.9 in Datteln-Ahsen. The group of locks overcomes a height difference of 7.50 meters.

    The large lock is 222 meters long, 12 meters wide and has lifting gates at both ends. It was built between 1925 and 1927 and officially put into operation in 1931 with the Wesel-Datteln Canal. The lifting gates were renewed in the 1990s, as were the other large locks on the canal.
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