Oranienburg Canal
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| abbreviation | OrC |
| length | 8.98 km |
| Built | 1832 to 1837 |
| Beginning | km 21.01 |
| The End | km 29.99 |
| Descent structures | Lock Sachsenhausen , lock Pinnow |
| Junctions, crossings | Canal cross Oranienburg |
| Used river | Havel |
| Kilometrage | to mountain |
| Ascent | North |
| Competent authority | Eberswalde Waterways and Shipping Office |
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The Oranienburger Canal in the state of Brandenburg (Germany) was built between 1832 and 1837 as an artificial Havel arm due to the difficult shipping conditions below the Oranienburger mills. It branches off from the Friedrichsthaler Havel above (north) the former Neumühl Castle ( Sachsenhausen , today to Oranienburg ) and bypasses the city of Oranienburg to the west until it joins the Oranienburger Havel between Pinnow and Borgsdorf . To the north of Oranienburg it crosses the older Ruppin Canal near Friedenthal , creating the Oranienburg Canal Cross . Two locks were built along the canal. The lock in the northern section in Sachsenhausen (destroyed in the war since 1945) is out of order today and only serves as a weir. The Pinnow lock in the southern section, however, continues to operate.
With the completion of the large shipping route Berlin-Stettin (today as before 1914: Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße , HOW) in 1914, the majority of commercial shipping to and from the Oder and the upper Havel crossed it. Since the locks in the northern section of the canal were destroyed or abandoned, shipping traffic in this direction has been completely stopped. The Oranienburger Canal today only represents the connection between the Ruppin Canal and the Havel-Oder waterway. The southern section of the canal is used almost exclusively for pleasure boats that travel to and from the Ruppin waters in summer . The northern section up to the former Sachsenhausen lock is hardly used. The canal has a bottom width of 9.42 meters and a minimum water depth of 1.41 m. According to the development concept of the city of Oranienburg, a restoration of the northern section from the Sachsenhausen lock to the canal cross is planned.
The 9 km long Oranienburger Canal (OrK), together with the Friedrichsthaler Havel and the Malzer Canal, forms the Alte Havel-Oder waterway and is one of the so-called other federal inland waterways under the jurisdiction of the Eberswalde Waterways and Shipping Office. From Pinnow to Malz, it still uses the old kilometerage from before 1914. It joins the Havel-Oder waterway at Pinnow at km 21.01, crosses the Ruppiner Canal at km 28.76 and begins in Sachsenhausen at km 29.99 .
Locks
- Pinnow lock , HOW 22.6 km, renovated in 2001
- Sachsenhausen lock, HOW, out of service since destruction in 1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ Integrated urban development concept Oranienburg 2020: PDF
- ↑ a b c Directory F of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 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
Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 23 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 27 ″ E