# Schleuse 73

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Schleuse 73 is a former lock on the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal in Nuremberg, known as the Steinerne Brücke. The canal was built in the nineteenth century. Its one hundred locks carried the waterway across 264 metres between the Danube and Main, linking the North Sea with the Black Sea. The full route stretched 173 kilometres through this ambitious waterway.

At canal kilometre 109.2, the chamber measured 34.15 metres long and 4.67 metres wide. Each passage overcame between 2.30 and 3.20 metres. A chamber could require up to 500 cubic metres of water, while an intermediate gate shortened it to 26.2 metres. That shorter length accommodated standard barges measuring 24 metres.

Lock keepers operated the gates and maintained the canal. After the war, the canal was filled in, while the lock’s engineering legacy remains part of Nuremberg’s history.

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