Baťův kanál
| Otrokovice-Rohatec waterway | ||
 Spytihněv lock |
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| Data | ||
| location | Czech Republic , Slovakia | |
| River system | March | |
| source |
March , landing stage Otrokovice 49 ° 12 ′ 39 ″ N , 17 ° 30 ′ 23 ″ E |
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| Source height | 182 m | |
| End point |
March at Rohatec 48 ° 52 ′ 41 ″ N , 17 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 164 m | |
| Height difference | 18 m | |
| Bottom slope | 0.35 ‰ | |
| length | 51.5 km | |
| Ports | Spytihněv , Staré Město , Uherské Hradiště , Veselí nad Moravou , Vnorovy , Strážnice , Petrov , Sudoměřice , Skalica , ( Hodonín ) | |
The Baťův kanál (German Bata Canal ) or Průplav Otrokovice-Rohatec ( waterway Otrokovice-Rohatec ) is an international waterway of class 0 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . It leads over 51.5 kilometers along the March from Otrokovice to Rohatec and has an altitude difference of 18.6 m. 25.2 km of this is accounted for by ship canals and 28.3 km by the March. Its original length was 51.8 km and included a one-kilometer section of the Dřevnice . The planning procedures for an extension on the Otrokovice- Kroměříž and Rohatec- Hodonín sections are currently underway .
description
The Otrokovice-Rohatec waterway is open every year from May 1st to October 28th. There are 13 locks at it, each 5.30 m wide and 39.5 m or 50 m long, as well as 13 weirs. It is navigable with ships up to 5 m wide and 38 m long, the diving depth of which should not exceed 0.80 m. There are 50 bridges along the route, most of which have a clearance height of 3.30 m. The lowest bridge with 2.30 m is at Huštěnovice . The usual headroom is 2.40 m, with a higher water level 2.30 m. The canal is 1.50 m deep and 12 m wide. There are nine harbors along the waterway, as well as further landing stages for tourist shipping. Eleven fixed departure points are designated for private transport.
history
At the beginning of the 1930s, the major entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa was one of the most staunch advocates of building a waterway from the Danube to the Oder . His half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa initially intended to create a smaller ship canal along the March to transport the coal from his lignite pits in Ratíškovice by water to the thermal power station of the Baťa group in Baťov . Support for this project, which provided for navigability with ships up to 100 t, was rejected by the Ministry of Transport, as it did not correspond to the passability for ships up to 1000 t intended for the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal . The canal project was later expanded to include ships 38 m long and 5 m wide with a draft of 1.20 m and a load of 150 t. After negotiations with the Ministry of Agriculture, Baťa was able to secure state participation in building a canal. Irrigation canals were built on the river at state expense to eliminate the drying out in the March floodplains caused by the regulation of the March and in particular the lowering of the groundwater and well water in the Strážnice area after the Morávka was dropped. In the March, weirs should also be built at Kroměříž, Spytihněv and Nedakonice to make them navigable as part of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal project. Baťa took on the additional costs for making it navigable, as well as a quarter of the costs for the fortifications. Under these conditions, on October 4, 1934, the state of Moravian-Silesia took over the developer. Because of the global economic crisis, half of Baťa's share was taken over by the Ministry of Public Works. The work was completed in 1938 and the cost was 38,000,000 crowns. At the same time, the company had a railway built from the Tomáš mine in Ratíškovice to Morávka for loading coal onto ships. In Sudoměřice and Baťov pneumatic carbon Tipper emerged. The Baťov port was built on the Dřevnice. The company built 14 locks with lock keeper's houses along the shipping lane, 10 of which were built on the ship and irrigation canals, three on the weirs in the March and one in the Baťov port. A cable car was built to cross the March to Morávka. On February 22, 1939, the Brno State Office approved shipping by the Baťa company after the waterway had been approved. In July, Baťa founded the Moravian Shipping Company / Moravská plavební as "Morava", which was granted the concession to operate on the Baův canal in September 1939. Further plans to make the Dřevnice navigable to Zlín and a continuation of the canal on the left bank of the March to the Danube near Děvín could not be implemented because of the outbreak of war. From 1941 on, shipping on the canal came to a standstill due to the Second World War. After the end of the war, the war damage to the waterway was repaired for 21,000,000 crowns and goods transport was resumed in 1947. As a result of the nationalization of the Baťa group, failed investments led to the obsolescence of the technical equipment. In 1951 shipping was stopped on the lower section of the canal. In 1960 goods transport on the canal was completely discontinued and in 1972, at the request of the state enterprise Svit Gottwaldov, its concession for shipping traffic was canceled.
From 1993 onwards, plans were drawn up in the neighboring communities of the canal to resume shipping traffic for tourist purposes. Since 1996 the canal has been gradually repaired and tourist shipping started. In 2004, work began on building the Rohatec lock to extend shipping to Hodonín . Between 2008 and 2013 the Bělov lock will be built to expand shipping traffic to Kroměříž .
Sections
Kroměříž-Otrokovice (under construction)
In order to accommodate excursion traffic to Kroměříž, it is necessary to build a lock on the March 166.77 at the Bělov weir and build a passable bridge under the Otrokovice-Bělov road. A jetty is to be built in Kroměříž. The work took place between 2008 and 2013.
Otrokovice-Spytihněv
The section of the waterway runs from the Otrokovice pier to the Spytihněv weir on the March. Since the end of the transport of goods and the port of Otrokovice in 1960, the lower reaches of the Dřevnice are no longer navigable. There are two landing stages for tourists in Napajedla and Napajedla-Pahrbek.
Baťův kanál Spytihněv-Staré Město
| Baťův kanál | ||
 The Morava on the Baťův kanál below the Spytihněv lock |
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| Data | ||
| location | Czech Republic | |
| source |
March , at the Spytihněv weir 49 ° 8 ′ 12 ″ N , 17 ° 30 ′ 8 ″ E |
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| Source height | 180 m | |
| muzzle |
March in Staré Město 49 ° 4 ′ 25 ″ N , 17 ° 27 ′ 14 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 179 m | |
| Height difference | 1 m | |
The canal branches off at the Spytihněv weir via a lock on the right side of the March and leads to Babice and Huštěnovice to Staré Město . At Babice, the canal runs over the Vrbka and Kudlovský creeks that flow into the Morava. There are locks in Uhliska near Babice and above Staré Město. On this section there are the ports of Spytihněv and Staré Město as well as the piers Babice I, Babice II and Huštěnovice. In Staré Město, the Baťův kanál flows back into the March via another lock system.
Uherské Hradiště-Veselí nad Moravou
From Uherské Hradiště the waterway leads along the March again via Kostelany nad Moravou , Nedakonice , Uherský Ostroh to Veselí nad Moravou . On this section there are locks at the weirs Kunovský les, Nedakonice and Uherský Ostroh. There are berths Kunovský les, Kostelany nad Moravou, Uherský Ostroh I, Uherský Ostroh II and Veselí nad Moravou-Ranč.
Baťův kanál Veselí nad Moravou-Vnorovy / Morávka Lidéřovice-Rohatec
| Baťův kanál / Morávka | ||
 Overpass over the Velička near Strážnice |
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| Data | ||
| location | Czech Republic | |
| source |
March , near Veselí nad Moravou 48 ° 57 ′ 26 ″ N , 17 ° 22 ′ 43 ″ E |
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| Source height | 173 m | |
| muzzle |
March at Rohatec 48 ° 52 ′ 41 ″ N , 17 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 164 m | |
| Height difference | 9 m | |
At Veselí nad Moravou, the Ba rechtův kanál branches off to the right via a lock from the March and runs past Zarazice and Vnorovy next to the river. At Lidéřovice, the canal crosses the March by means of locks on both sides and a cable car that only exists in remnants. On the following 13.4 km long section, the canal follows the straightened bed of the old Morávka / Morawka arm of the March and is therefore called Morávka . At the Strážnice Castle Park , the Morávka is led through the Velička by means of locks on both sides ; the accompanying path crosses the Velička by means of a bridge. Passing Strážnice, Petrov and Sudoměřice , the Morávka reaches the Slovakian border. Another lock is in Petrov, where the Radějovka flows into it. From the confluence of the Sudoměřický potok near Sudoměřice, the Morávka forms the border with Slovakia. Across from Rohatec , the Morávka joins the March. The catchment area of the Morávka covers 101.1 km².
On Baťův kanál / Morávka there are the ports of Veselí nad Moravou-laguna, Petrov, Sudoměřice and Skalica as well as the landing stages Veselí nad Moravou-hvězdárna and Rohatec.
At Sudoměřice the Rohatec-Veselí nad Moravou railway crosses the Morávka. At this point, a coal dump truck built in 1939 has been preserved as a technical monument on the canal.
Rohatec-Hodonín (planned)
In order to commence excursion traffic on the March to Hodonín , the repair of the lock in Petrov and the elevation of a bridge over Morávka and Radějovka began. At the state border, the widening and deepening of the mouth of the Morávka into the March and the construction of a new lock at Rohatec are necessary. Intergovernmental negotiations are being conducted with Slovakia for this purpose. In addition to a port in Hodonín, the Perunská lúka pier is to be built on the Slovak side. Work on this began in 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SOUČASNOST ( Memento from August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.batuvkanal.info/O-vodnim-toku/Planovany-rozvoj-na-plavebnim-toku/2P-9.article.aspx
- ↑ http://www.rvccr.cz/?s=3&m=26&sm=64
- ↑ http://moravske-karpaty.cz/ote/38/3_prirodni_pomery_38.htm (link not available)
- ↑ http://www.rvccr.cz/?s=3&m=26&sm=56
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