Water Bridge that carries river over a river! The Elbe-Havel and Mittelland canals had previously met near Magdeburg but on opposite sides of the Elbe. Ships moving between the two had to make a 12-kilometer detour, descending from the Mittelland Canal through the Rothensee boat lift into the Elbe, and then sailing downstream on the river, before entering the Elbe-Havel Canal through Niegripp lock. Low water levels in the Elbe often prevented fully laden canal barges (flat-bottomed boat) from making this crossing, requiring time-consuming off-loading of cargo. Image source: china.org.cn The waterway was more than 80 years in the planning as its construction started in the 1930s, but was halted during the Second World War. Its construction was restarted in 1997 and it took six years to build it at a cost of about half a billion Euros. It was opened for public in 2003.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:19:11 +0000
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