Niegripper connection channel

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(3) Location of the NVK between the Elbe and the Elbe-Havel Canal with lock

The Niegripper Connection Canal (NVK) is a federal waterway of waterway class  IV in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . It creates a connection between the Elbe at kilometer 343.59 and the Elbe-Havel Canal at km 325.95 near the village of Niegripp and is 1.56 kilometers long. The canal has a lock just before the Elbe . The Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for the administration .

history

In order to shorten the waterway between the fortress city of Magdeburg and the residential cities on the Havel and Spree , the Prussian King Friedrich II initiated studies and plans for the construction of an artificial waterway between the Elbe and Havel through Minister Gröne in 1740. After 1743, construction of the Plauer Canal began. It and the Ihle Canal later became the Elbe-Havel Canal. The way on the waterway between Magdeburg and Berlin was shortened by 150 kilometers. For decades, the western end of the Elbe-Havel Canal, and thus also the Niegripper connecting canal, owed its appearance and shape to the unfinished ideas and projects for the expansion of the Mittelland Canal in this area. With the beginning of the Second World War , the construction work to create a waterway that would cross Germany, which would later become the Mittelland Canal, independent of the fluctuations in the water level of the great rivers Weser and Elbe , was stopped. Only with German reunification could the project, now called “Project Number 17”, be resumed and implemented. Until the opening of the canal bridge over the Elbe in autumn 2003, the Niegripper connecting canal was the only shipping connection to the canal area on the middle Elbe alongside the Pareyer connecting canal.

Places and bridges

The town of Niegripp is located near the short canal, giving its name to the shipping canal. Immediately to the east of the lock is the Niegripper road bridge over the canal.

The Niegripp lock from the Elbe side
Old lock in the former Ihle Canal (Niegripper Old Canal)

The Niegripp lock

Today's Niegripp lock was previously known as the “New Lock” because there was a lock at another location during the Ihle Canal . Remnants of this lock have been preserved (picture).

Examples of traffic development

Ship passages Niegripper connecting channel (number of ships in both directions)
9,446
7,305
9,075
7,659
6,887
7,362
8,974
10,524
6.322
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
  • When the waterway cross was opened to traffic in 2003, ship passages in the Niegripper connecting canal decreased significantly. Since July 2010, the Niegripp lock has been remote-controlled from the Hohenwarthe double savings lock, which leads to longer waiting times.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways. transpress publishing house for traffic, Berlin, various years.
  • Western European shipping and port calendar. Inland shipping publisher, Duisburg-Ruhrort. OCLC 48960431

cards

  • Sport boat tickets inland 1 . Nautical Publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .
  • W. Ciesla, H. Czesienski, W. Schlomm, K. Senzel, D. Weidner: Shipping maps of the inland waterways of the German Democratic Republic 1: 10,000. Volume 4. Editor: Waterways Authority of the GDR, Berlin 1988, OCLC 830889996 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory E, serial no. 10 der Chronik ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de
  2. ↑ Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de
  3. ↑ Traffic statistics through traffic ( Memento from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) elwis.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 8 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 2"  E