Scharnebeck twin ship lift

Scharnebeck twin ship lift

The Scharnebeck twin ship lift is on the Elbe-Seitenkanal, which connects the Elbe (at Artlenburg) and the Mittellandkanal (near Wolfsburg).

The boat lift was built in Scharnebeck to the North-east of Lüneburg in 1974 and was at that time the largest ship lift in the world. The first ship passed through the lift on 1975-12-05.

There is a museum at the site which can be visited by walkers.

Technical data

*Design: double counterweight lift
*Construction cost: 152 million Deutsche Mark
*Vertical lift: max. 38 m (depending on the water level of the Elbe)
*Trough size: usable length / usable width / water depth 105 m / 12 m / 3.38 m
*Gate safety: The catch ropes at the trough gates reduce the usable length of the trough by 5m.
*Total weight of the trough filled with water: 5,800 t
*Total moving weight of a trough, the water contained, and associated parts: approx. 11,800 t
*Weight of one counterweight of which there are 224 per trough: approx. 26.5 t (giving a total of 5,936 t per trough)
*Dimensions of one counterweight: 6.8 m x 3.4 m x 0.32 m
*Thickness of the steel cables: 54 mm
*Source of power: 4 electric motors of 160 kW each (together about 870 horsepower)
*Time taken to lift or lower a trough: 3 minutes
*Time taken to pass through the lift: 15–20 minutes
*Visitors per year: approx. 500,000

Further reading

*cite book |last=Uhlemann |first=Hans-Joachim |title=Canal lifts and inclines of the world |origdate= |edition=English Translation |year=2002 |publisher=Internat |isbn= 0-9543-1811-0

External links

*Structurae|id=s0022404|title=Scharnebeck Ship Lift
* [http://www.scharnebecker.de/Hebewerk/schiffshebewerk_scharnebeck.htm Technical Data in German]
* [http://www.wsa-uelzen.wsv.de/wasserstrassen/bauwerke/index.html#shw Description of the lift in German]
* [http://scharnebeck.relaunch.luenecom.de/dokumente/24864/Info%20English%20-%20Twin%20Ship%20Elevator.pdf Twin Ship Elevator Technical Data]

ee also

*Schiffshebewerk Scharnebeck, article on the German-language WikiPedia from which this article had been translated
*List of boat lifts
*Strépy-Thieu boat lift, Le Rœulx, Belgium
*Peterborough lift lock, Ontario, Canada
*Falkirk Wheel, Scotland, United Kingdom
*Anderton boat lift, Anderton, United Kingdom


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