Maritime Museum
Stralsund: Giant crane lifts panes weighing tons
A piece of disk weighing several tons is maneuvered by a crane into the maritime museum, which is currently being renovated. photo
© Stefan Sauer/dpa
A huge crane maneuvers pieces of glass weighing tons in Stralsund’s medieval old town. In the future, visitors to the maritime museum there will be able to look at a Caribbean underwater world.
In Stralsund, a large crane has three multi-ton segments of an aquarium pane for the aquarium that is being renovated Maritime museum placed in position. Parts of the old town had already been closed for the maneuver on Thursday.
According to the company responsible, the six-axle crane with a theoretical load capacity of up to 400 tons is normally used in the construction of wind turbines. Another crane helped unload the pane parts from Japan.
Together they will form the largest aquarium disk in the Maritime Museum on the site of the former medieval St. Catherine’s Monastery, with a width of almost ten meters and a height of more than eight meters. According to the German Oceanographic Museum Foundation, the acrylic glass parts each weigh up to 20 tons. The pane of the planned 700,000 liter Caribbean museum must therefore withstand high water pressure and is more than 50 centimeters thick. According to the information, this will make it the largest and thickest disc compared to the aquariums at the Meereseum on the Stralsund harbor island.
Renovation of the museum
The maritime museum is currently being rebuilt and modernized for more than 50 million euros. According to director Andreas Tanschus, the show is scheduled to open in July 2024.
Employees of the manufacturing company from Japan were also present when the window parts were delivered on Thursday. The large crane had already been erected on Tuesday and Wednesday with the help of another crane. According to the crane company, the crane operator had to maneuver the boom over another building without direct visibility to the radio.