Английская Википедия:Elster-Saale Canal

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Start of the Elster-Saale Canal at Lindenau Harbour

The Elster-Saale Canal (Шаблон:Lang-de), renamed in 1999 by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration to Saale-Leipzig Canal (Шаблон:Lang-de) or SLK and on the Halle side also called Saale-Elster Canal, was a canal project started in 1933 and aborted in 1943. It was intended to link the White Elster river with the Saale near Leuna and thus enable the city of Leipzig to be joined to Germany's inland waterway network. The 11 kilometre long water-filled channel is one of the "special federal waterways".

A lock was built near Wusteneutzch which would have allowed canal freight traffic to connect with the Saale; however the canal never reached this point. This link would have given Leipzig access to the Elbe via the Saale and thus to Hamburg and the North Sea. The canal was planned for ships up to 1,000 tonnes in weight (roughly Class IV).

Plans to complete the canal have been revived and an Elster-Saale Canal Society has been formed.

Gallery

• Start of the canal in Leipzig

  Start of the canal in Leipzig

• Railway bridge near Rückmarsdorf

  Railway bridge near Rückmarsdorf

• B 181 bridge near Rückmarsdorf

  B 181 bridge near Rückmarsdorf

• Even in GDR times the canal was used for rowing

  Even in GDR times the canal was used for rowing

• Safety gate East near Burghausen

  Safety gate East near Burghausen

• Underpass for the Zschampert below the Elster-Saale Canal

  Underpass for the Zschampert below the Elster-Saale Canal

• Relief work for water level regulation

  Relief work for water level regulation

• The canal near Dölzig

  The canal near Dölzig

• Bridge near Günthersdorf. Background: the A 9 motorway bridge

  Bridge near Günthersdorf. Background: the A 9 motorway bridge

• End of the canal near Günthersdorf

  End of the canal near Günthersdorf

See also

• List of waterbodies in Saxony-Anhalt
• Karl Heine Canal

Literature

• Wolfram Sturm, Leipzig und seine Schiffskanäle. Leipzig, 1998.
• Шаблон:Citation
• Шаблон:CitationШаблон:Dead link

External links

• Photos and information on the Elster-Saale Canal and Karl-Heine Canal at www.ostwall.com
• Photos and information on the Elster-Saale Canal and Karl-Heine Canal at www.verkehrsrelikte.de
• Saale-Leipzig Canal in the electronic waterway information system (ELWIS)
• Photos of its construction
• Official homepage of the Saale-Elster Canal Society (English version)
• The Touristic Water Network Leipziger Neuseenland