Description
In the course of the canalization of the Main at the end of the 19th century, the Offenbach lock was built as a needle weir in 1901. The water level was regulated and dammed by many parallel individual posts, so-called needles, set into the river bed. After severe damage during the Second World War, the lock was rebuilt in 1949, now as a roller mill with four weir piers and a pedestrian bridge. In order to cope with the threefold increase in shipping traffic in the early 1990s, the lock chambers were extended from 110 meters to 230 meters and 340 meters in 1994 and the basins were deepened to 4 meters. Ships now only need 20 minutes to pass through. In the direction of Frankfurt, a red wind figure greets you as a kinetic work of art.