Braband Canal
The Braband Canal is a side canal of the Alster in Hamburg - Alsterdorf . It is 675 meters long and 15 meters wide throughout.
The canal branches off to the right , i.e. to the northwest, from the Alster directly behind the Sengelmann Bridge ( Lage ). After 60 meters, it crosses under the Wiesenbrücke and shortly afterwards turns in a south-westerly direction so that it runs parallel to the Alster. After 350 meters, the second curve follows back towards the Alster, the canal crosses under the Braband Bridge and flows back into the Alster ( Lage ) shortly before it is crossed by the Hindenburg Bridge. The artificial island between the Alster and the Braband Canal is 445 meters long and 140 meters wide and is accessed through the Brabandstrasse. The street Am Brabandkanal runs along the north-western bank of the Braband Canal.
The former course of the Alster was straightened from 1913 to around 1918 from Ohlsdorf to Winterhude . In addition to the formed annular channel as the rest of the Alsteraltlaufs the three extending parallel to the Alster Brabandkanal, Skagerrak channel and island channel to allow more build the water.
The canal is named after Carl Braband (1870-1914), a lawyer and liberal politician of the Hamburg citizenship . It is a first-order body of water.
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- ↑ Geoportal Hamburg , accessed on November 8, 2019
- ↑ Sven Bardua: Fuhlsbüttel lock threatened with demolition! , Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft - Geschichtswerkstatt eV, circular 2010, p. 39, accessed on November 8, 2019
- ↑ Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names - Where they come from and what they mean , 6th edition, CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86393-009-7
- ↑ Hamburg Water Act (HWaG) in the version of March 29, 2005 , accessed on November 8, 2019
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