Ribe Å flows into the Wadden Sea National Park through Ribe Kammersluse. On average, 15,000 litres of water per second flow through the sluice and out into the Wadden Sea. After a storm with the sluice closed and heavy rainfall, up to four times as much can flow through.
Ribe Kammersluse is centrally located in the middle of the Wadden Sea National Park. The sluice was built in 1914 at the same time as the Ribe dike was constructed. The sluice is one of the two west-facing chamber locks in Denmark. The other is in Hvide Sande and connects the North Sea with Ringkøbing Fjord.
Ribe Kammersluse is Denmark’s only chamber lock through which a river flows.
Around 1930, a number of Ribe’s citizens built small, picturesque holiday homes along Kanaldiget, so that over time a small cultural environment emerged by the sluice, where the owners could enjoy nature and pursue sailing, hunting and fishing.
The houses are still there and have been continuously modernized.
Ribe Kammersluse is centrally located in the middle of the Wadden Sea National Park. The lock is one of the two west-facing chamber locks in Denmark. The lock in Hvide Sande connects the North Sea with Ringkøbing Fjord. Ribe Kammersluse is Denmark's only chamber lock through which a river runs.
