Hydraulic steel structures

Gambsheim Krün Mattmark Oberzolling Trempel Willstätt

Fish pass at the Rhine in Gambsheim

With a height difference of 11 m, this is the largest fish pass in Europe. Wiegert & Bär contributed ca. 100 tons of steel construction, including trashracks and trashrack cleaners and bulkhead gates.

This is a view of the fish observation post with a window cleaning machine also made by Wiegert & Bär.

Krün

Project: to renew the regulating gate at the inlet canal of the Walchensee.

Mattmark

Project: renovation of the hydraulic steel structures while the reservoir had been drained. View of the filled reservoir in summer, at an altitude of 2000 m.

Oberzolling

Complete renovation of the 4-block dam construction in Oberzolling, at the river Amper. Dam width 21.6 m.

Wehranlage Trempel

Dam construction consisting of:

inlet gate
bottom gate
flap gate
sand extraction gate

Willstätt

German utility company SÜWAG has built a completely new power station at the river Kinzig near the city of Willstätt. The new power station replaces the hundred years old power plant at the mill channel in the city.

The order to Wiegert & Bähr concerned manufacturing and delivery of the complete generating equipment as well as the entire hydraulic steel structures and trashrack with trashrack cleaner.

Hydraulic steel structures

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