HYDROTECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL BUILDING ROUTE

HERITAGE TOURS, ENGINEERING TOUR TO GDANSK

THE RADUNIA CANAL

The Radunia Canal – historic, artificial channel, 14 km long, built by the Teutonic Order in 1348-1356. The canal was providing fresh, potable water to Gdansk as well as to the local Teutonic Castle. It was also used as the propulsion to the mills. Water flowing by the canal was filling city moats.

GREAT MILL

Great Mill was built by the Teutonic Order in 1350 and was in use until the end of World War II when it was partially destroyed. It was the biggest manufacturing plant of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages.

GDANSK CRANE

Gdansk Crane, built in 1444, was the biggest port crane in Europe. The facility was able to rise 4 tons shipment on 11 m height. Today there is an exhibition – part of the Central Maritime Museum – on merchant shipping history presenting interiors of granaries, wooden models of harbour quays and ships.

THE ROAD BRIDGE IN TCZEW

The road bridge in Tczew was built in 1851-1858. Its length was 837 m. It was the longest bridge in Europe and one of the most beautiful in the world at that time. It served as a railway bridge first. The American Society of Civil Engineers listed the Tczew bridge as an International Monument of the Structural Engineering in 2004. This way the bridge as the first object in Middle-East Europe joined the list of 240 magnificent technical buildings in the world including the famous Eiffel Tower.

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS ON THE RADUNIA RIVER

The first hydroelectric power plant on the Radunia river was built in 1910. Nine hydroelectric power plants compose a unique complex called The Radunia Cascade which is considered to be interesting because of their scenic location among moraine hills and because of their remarkable architecture. The Radunia power plants are the oldest facilities of this type in Pomerania. They are still operating and producing hydroelectricity.

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT IN BIELKOWO

During World War II the administration of the Free City of Danzig hid a part of the city archives and the St. George’s figure from the top of the roof of Gdansk St. George Confraternity Manor House in the water power plant in Bielkowo.

ZARNOWIEC PUMPED STORAGE POWER STATION

Zarnowiec Pumped Storage Power Station – it is the biggest hydroelectric power station in Poland. The power station was intended to be a load-balancer for Zarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant which was supposed to be built on the opposite side of the Zarnowiec Lake. After the catastrophe in Chernobyl the works on the nuclear power plant were halted.

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