S1 - Geesthacht

 Personal remark 06.04.2003:

The only obstacle in the german part of the river Elbe. The river Elbe in this area is very broad. Within normal flow this obstacle is only to be passed by big fishes. During a visit around pentcost 2003 a seal was fishing in the entrance of the fishway. On an another visit in autuum 2003 I filmed a cormorant swallowing a very big silvereel, accompanied by several fellows.

Migrationdevice : The former fishway did not work because of to few current impulse and beeing situated in a bay without much flow. Nowadays there is a broad roughened chute with high investment installed.
Surface migration downstream should be possible without problems.

Actual april 2010 : more pictures of the construction site you find here.

New March 2010 : Actually the new fishladder in Geesthacht is  beeing built (see photo on the right side).
Unusual are the dimensions of this double vertical slot fishway for the common sturgeon (Ac. sturio): 16 x 10 meters ! Slotwidth 1,20 meter and 420 meters long - average baseslope 1:94. Moreover the lower entrance of the fishway is directly beneath the obstacle and not as more common in some distance to the obstacle.   A draft is found in the online part of the german "Bergedorfer Zeitung" of friday, 13th march 2009.

The entrance in the bottom water - a favourite
place for cormorants and seals to prey on fishes .

Middelpart of the rawbed raceway with a fitting dimension compared to wide stream.

Functioncontrol:
Fix installed on the whole width of the chute.

Outlet of the roughened chute in the headwater of the fishway. Another fishway on the other bank regarding the migration requirements of the houting and the european smelt would not leave much wishes. Perhaps one of the best devices in Germany especially in comparison to other streams of similar broadness. Even bad swimmers like burbots, flounders and stickelbacks were found during examination of the fishway.