The Industrial Heritage Route - Canals and Shipping lists stations of the Industrial Heritage Route that deal particularly with the topic of inland navigation. This includes the canals of the West German canal network as well as the rivers Rhine, Lippe and Ruhr.
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| Themed route 14 Canals and shipping | |
 One of Anchor points: Museum of German Inland Navigation in Duisburg | |
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| RIK | Themed route 14 |
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| Wikipedia | RIK # Route 14 |
The route of industrial culture represents as Holiday route in the Ruhr area special industrial monuments and areas of the industrial landscape in the form of road routes for motor vehicles and also for that bicycle in front. In addition to the Anchor points, which form the backbone of the route, convey the Themed routes always a special topic, a local area or something special in the history of the Ruhr area.
The themed route with the number 14 "Canals and Shipping" deals with inland shipping and its history. This of course includes the Rhine, the important lifeline through Western Europe. Goods were transported to and from the Netherlands here. The first river that was made navigable across the Ruhr area was the lip. It was dammed and the ships pulled by horses on the bank = grained. Only later was the Dysentery made navigable. Just that Emscher, the third river in the Ruhr area, was not at all suitable for shipping, but in parts it made its bed available to build the Rhine-Herne Canal (RHK). The West German canal network also consists of the "Lippe Side Canal" Wesel-Datteln Canal (WDK) and Dortmund-Hamm Canal (DHK), which run across the south of the Lippe in the northern Ruhr area. The Dortmund-Ems Canal (DEK), on the other hand, leads north. Everyone meets at the Dattelner Meer, one of the largest canal crossings in Europe.
The mining industry supplied coal and needed wood to support the tunnels. The industry uses the coal to process the iron ore. The manufactured products had to be delivered to the people and all workers, traders, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, etc. and their families had to have something to eat. The Ruhr area needed mass transport for all goods, on the one hand the canals and on the other the railway lines. The Duisburg ports grew into a mass transshipment point Rhine, Dysentery and RHK approach.
The West German canal network is still used today, now also by leisure boats. There are a number of ports and locks along the canals. The Lippe is only used by paddle boats and canoes, but there were barrages and locks here too. Even an unfinished canal is the subject of the route. How did the coal get to the lip? How do inland boatmen live? Or how did rivers and canals cross? Such questions are answered here.
preparation
The Ruhr area offers the service facilities and accommodation options of a big city. If that's not enough or because it is fully booked / expensive due to local events, you can switch to the surrounding regions: Lower Rhine and Münsterland.
Information on the individual stations of the themed route 14 can be found in the official RIK travel guide (see literature), the respective anchor point or the corresponding one website.
The anchor points are also to be understood as the first point of contact for information seekers:
- Henrichenburg ship lift (LWL industrial museum), 45731 Waltrop-Oberwiese, Am Hebewerk 2. Tel.: 49 2363 9707-0, Fax: 49 2363 9707-12, Email: [email protected]. A historic elevator for ships (built in 1899, shut down in 1969), today expanded into a museum, many viewing opportunities with old ships in the upper and lower water, exhibitions and the accessible elevator itself. Gastrobus on the premises. Access with wheelchairs is only partially possible with a lift / ramp (spiral staircase).Open: Mon closed, Tue-Sun 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Price: adults € 6, reduced € 3, children up to 17 years free, there are also free days !.
- Museum of German Inland Shipping, 47119 Duisburg, Apostelstrasse 84 (Tram 901, bus 906/907 / NE1 to the inland shipping museum or Scholtenhofstr). Tel.: (0)203 80889-40, Fax: (0)203 80889-22, Email: [email protected]. Open: Closed on Mondays, Tues-Sun, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Price: adults € 4.50, families € 10.00, groups of 15 or more € 3.50 / person.
getting there
The Ruhr area is easy to reach, nearby airports are in Dusseldorf or Dortmund, both have rail connections. There is a high density of motorways, federal highways and railways on offer. Important hubs with long-distance connections are the main train stations in Duisburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, eat, Hagen and Dortmund. There are several motorways for motor vehicles (A 1, A 2, A 3, A 40, A 42, A 43, A 44, A 45) with corresponding departures, but important: the Ruhr area is largely one Environmental zone, which only allows the entry of vehicles with certain badges (current status can be found in the respective city article under arrival!).
Here we go
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- Henrichenburg ship lift, Waltrop
- Waltrop lock park, RHK km 45.6 and DEK km 14.7
- port Dortmund
- City harbor Luenen, DHK km 11.1 - 12.1
- Preußenhafen, Lünen, DHK km 14.2
- Marina Rünthe, Bergkamen, DHK km 23
- City harbor Hamm, DHK
- Hamm lock, DHK km 36.98
- Water handover Hamm, DHK, water handover from / to the Lippe
- Werries lock, Hamm, DHK km 40.41
- Schulweg-Steg, Hamm, DHK km 40.6
- Lippeschleuse Hamm-Heessen, one of the twelve locks that were built between Wesel and Lippstadt in 1823-27
- Canal bridge Alte Fahrt, crossing of the Alte Fahrt of the DEK over the Lippe, with a former water transfer
- "Schiefe Brücke" and Steverbrücke Olfen, further crossings of the Alte Fahrt over the federal road and the Stever
- Canal cross Dates, also known as the Dattelner Meer, this is where the WDK (km 60.3), DHK and DEK (km 21.3) meet, followed by the RHK
- Datteln-Natrop lock group, WDK km 59.2 - 59.4
- Remote control center for water supply Datteln
- Herrmann-Grochtmann-Museum, city history museum in Datteln, with a focus on inland navigation including women's history
- Former Lippeschleuse Datteln-Ahsen
- Port of Victor, Castrop-Rauxel, RHK km 40.1 - 41.0
- Lock Herne-Ost, Herne, RHK km 37.0 - 37.3
- Former lock Herne-West, RHK km 35.0 - 35.4, now obsolete due to subsidence and dismantled
- City harbor Recklinghausen, RHK
- lock Wanne-Eickel, RHK
- Wanne-West harbor, Herne-Wanne, RHK
- Port of Grimberg and Erzbahn, Gelsenkirchen, RHK km 27.7 - 28.1, this is where the branches Ore railway line towards the south
- City harbor Gelsenkirchen, RHK km 23.8 - 24.5
- Gelsenkirchen lock, RHK km 23.1 - 23.4
- City harbor eat, RHK km 16.1 - 16.9
- port Bottrop, RHK km 16.0 - 16.9
- lock Oberhausen, RHK km 5.4 - 5.8
- Gahlenscher Kohlenweg, from Hattingen via Bochum to the Lippe in Dorsten-Gahlen.
- Former Lippe Harbor Wesel
- Municipal Rhine port of Wesel
- Friedrichsfeld lock group, Voerde, WDK km 1.7 - 2.0
- Fossa Eugeniana, was planned as a canal connection between the Rhine and Mass and a fortified border between areas claimed by Spanish and Dutch, remains can still be found in between Rheinberg and Kamp-Lintfort
- Orsoy harbor, Rheinberg, Rhine
- North Harbor Walsum, Duisburg, Rhine
- Port of Rhine Prussia, Duisburg, Rhine km 781.1
- Museum of German Inland Shipping, Duisburg
- Steiger Schifferbörse, Duisburg, Rhine km 780.8
- Haniel building complex, Duisburg-Ruhrort
- Steiger Schwanentor, Duisburg, access to the inner harbor
- Inner harbor of Duisburg
- Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Duisburg-Ehingen, Rhine
- Ruhrschleuse and Ruhrwehr, Duisburg-Ruhrort
- Rhine-Ruhr port Mülheim
- Ruhr lock and Mülheim water station
- Nightingale colliery, Witten
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literature
- ; Regional association Ruhr (Ed.): Canals and shipping; Vol.14. eat, 2008 (2nd edition), Industrial heritage route, ISBN 978-3-932165-65-8 .
