Büttel Canal

At the pumping station on the eastern side of the Kiel Canal

The Büttel Canal , also called the Büttler Canal, runs in Schleswig-Holstein between Büttel on the Elbe and the Kudensee . When the Kiel Canal was built, it was divided into two sections.

The almost eight kilometer long canal was built in 1765 and was mainly used to transport peat that was reloaded in the Büttel harbor for onward transport to Hamburg, but also to improve the drainage conditions in the Kudensee lowlands. The Kudensee is the last remaining of the Dithmarsch lakes that were once formed from sea bays. Today the canal is no longer of economic importance.

In current topographic maps, the section from the Kiel Canal to Brunsbüttel is referred to as the Burg-Kudenseer Canal .

photos

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  Canal in the municipality of Kudensee

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  The canal at the memorial in Büttel

Web links

Commons : Bütteler Kanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Kudensee. In: wilster.de. Retrieved July 25, 2014 . 
• Peter von Holdt: Postcards: Büttel (Elbe), Ostermoor. In: mein-wilster.de. Retrieved July 25, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Torfumschlag in Poppenbütteler port

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 42 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 3 ″  E