Mittellandkanal

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Coordinates: 52°25′16″N 9°42′4″E / 52.42111°N 9.70111°E / 52.42111; 9.70111

Course of the Mittellandkanal.

The Mittellandkanal (German for "midland canal") is, at 325.7 km, the longest artificial waterway in Germany. It branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine, at 52°16′37″N 7°36′18″E / 52.27694°N 7.605°E / 52.27694; 7.605), runs north along the Teutoburg Forest, past Hannover and meets with the Elbe River near Magdeburg (52°14′46″N 11°44′49″E / 52.24611°N 11.74694°E / 52.24611; 11.74694). At Magdeburg it connects to the Elbe-Havel Canal, making a continuous shipping route to Berlin and on to Poland.

At Minden the canal crosses the Weser River over two aqueducts (the second completed in 1998), and near Magdeburg it crosses the Elbe, also with an aqueduct. Connections by side canals exist at Osnabrück, Hildesheim and Salzgitter. West of Wolfsburg, the Elbe-Seitenkanal branches off, providing a connection to Hamburg, and (via the Elbe-Lübeck Canal) to the Baltic Sea.

[edit] Cities on the Mittellandkanal

• Ibbenbüren
• Osnabrück (via a branch)
• Bramsche
• Lübbecke
• Minden
• Garbsen
• Hannover
• Sehnde
• Hildesheim (via a branch)
• Peine
• Salzgitter (via a branch)
• Braunschweig
• Wolfsburg
• Haldensleben
• Magdeburg

Panorama of the port of Braunschweig on the Mittellandkanal at Watenbüttel, Braunschweig.

[edit] Structures

• Minden Aqueduct (52°18′12″N 8°55′54″E / 52.30333°N 8.93167°E / 52.30333; 8.93167)
• Magdeburg Water Bridge (52°13′51″N 11°42′5″E / 52.23083°N 11.70139°E / 52.23083; 11.70139)

[edit] Gallery

Old and new Mittellandkanal aqueducts near Minden.

The Mittellandkanal near Minden.

Mittellandkanal / River Weser Lock at Minden, Germany taken in 1977.

[edit] External links

• Google's English translation of MLK webpage