Canal bridge

Bridge of the Canal de la Marne au Rhin over the Saar

A canal bridge is a bridge structure that serves to lead a canal over another, lower-lying object.

In southern Germany, canal bridges were also called Brück Canal or Bruck Canal. In the course of the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , several canal bridges were built from 1836 onwards.

Well-known examples in Germany are the canal bridges of the Mittelland Canal over the Weser ( Wasserstraßenkreuz Minden ) and the Elbe ( Wasserstraßenkreuz Magdeburg ) as well as the canal bridge of the Oder-Havel Canal over the Berlin-Pasewalk-Stralsund railway north of Eberswalde .

Canal bridges can often be found in France , where canals were built in the 19th century even in topographically challenging terrain (e.g. Le Guétin canal bridge ). In England , the Dundas Aqueduct runs the Kennet and Avon Canal across the Bristol Avon . The Barton Swing Aqueduct from 1893 in Barton-upon-Irwell , England, is the world's only movable canal bridge.

Until the opening of the Magdeburg Canal Bridge in 1998, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (307 m; Wales ) opened in 1806 and, from 1896, the Briare Canal Bridge (662.69 m; France) were the longest canal bridges in Europe.

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