Brandenburg city canal

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Brandenburg city canal
The confluence with the Niederhavel

The confluence with the Niederhavel

abbreviation BrK
location Brandenburg on the Havel
length 4.1 kilometers
Built in the 16th century
Beginning Havel east of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel
The End Confluence with Brandenburger Niederhavel in the city area
Descent structures Brandenburg city lock
Junctions, crossings various side waterways
Historical precursors Neustadt moat
Used river Havel
Ascent eastbound
Competent authority Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office
Shipping routes in Brandenburg.png
Shipping routes around and through Brandenburg at the respective times

The Brandenburger Stadtkanal ( BrK ) (sometimes also Stadtkanal Brandenburg ) is a waterway that has been used continuously since the earliest modern times . The canal , which in addition to completely man-made sections, also encloses the original arms of the Havel , from which it branches off and into which it flows, is located along its entire length in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel in the state of Brandenburg .

history

Historical ( Schmettausch's map series between 1767 and 1787) and overlaid in blue is today's course of the Brandenburg City Canal

In the late Middle Ages , in the 13th century, dams were raised in the branching Havel on both sides of the cathedral island of Brandenburg and the river was dammed. Several water mills were installed in the dams . The Mühlenstaue were for river navigation, however, the Havel was an important traffic route early on, an obstacle that could not be surmounted, so that to circumnavigate for more than two centuries a flood channel, the Jakobsgraben , stretching far to the south, several kilometers long with a wooden one Used the floodgate as a shipping route.

From 1548 to 1550 a chamber lock was built in what was then Neustädter Stadtgraben in front of the Brandenburg city fortifications , it was a boiler lock , so that it could be used as a shipping route and replaced the Jakobsgraben. As a result, the moat was expanded to the Brandenburg city canal and led below the lock through marshland to the Niederhavel . The canal below the lock was rebuilt in 1792 and the estuary moved further downstream.

Furthermore, with the increasing importance of the water, the course was straightened repeatedly, for example in the 19th century. In the 19th century, several industrial companies, such as the Brennaborwerke, sprang up just south of the city canal .

With the construction of the Silo Canal, opened in 1910 as a new waterway to bypass Brandenburg, the city canal lost its importance for commercial shipping. The wooden boiler lock was finally decommissioned in 1920. The Brandenburg city lock , which opened in 1926 and was replaced by a new building in 1996, was built in its place. The city lock, and with it the Brandenburg city canal, have been used primarily by sport and leisure shipping since it was commissioned.

description

The Brandenburg City Canal is a federal waterway in the area of ​​responsibility of the Brandenburg suburb of the Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office . Officially, the waterway bears the abbreviation BrK. The Brandenburg City Canal federal waterway includes the secondary waterways of the former Old Town Mühlenarm (ASM), former Domstreng (DOS), Krakauer Havel Ost (KHO), Krakauer Havel West (KHW), former Krakauer Havel West (KHW), former Krakauer Havel West (KHW), former Krakauer Streng and Näthewinde (NÄauer Streng) branch Havel (NKrHW), tributary at BrK kilometer 56.06 (NUHW2) and military arm Stimmingsarche (WSta).

The city canal, in the upper area a natural branch of the Havel, branches off to the east of the city to the left of the main arm, flows past the Mittelbruch , the cathedral island of Brandenburg and the Neustadt and flows back into the Havel. In the lower section of the route from Neustadt the canal bed is artificially created. The city canal is 4.1 kilometers long. In addition to the side waterways on the right side of the canal in the area of ​​the cathedral island, the Jakobsgraben branches off to the east of the Neustadt and the Mühlgraben above the city lock. The latter joins below the lock. A ditch branches off to the right west of the Neustadt into the Brandenburg Theater Park. At bridge structures, three road bridges, the St. Anne's Bridge , the Steintor Bridge and the Canal Bridge, and two pedestrian and bicycle bridges lead over the city canal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Kinder, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (=  Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 240 .
  2. ^ UVS - Historical Development of the River Havel (1839/1943). In: gdws.wsv.bund.de. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Kinder, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (=  Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 195 .
  4. ↑ Sebastian Kinder, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (=  Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 198 .
  5. ↑ Sebastian Kinder, Haik Thomas Porada on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings . A geographical inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (=  Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 69 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 242 .
  6. ↑ 1 Abbreviations for federal waterways. In: gdws.wsv.bund.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lengths of the main shipping lanes of the federal inland waterways. In: gdws.wsv.bund.de. Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure , August 30, 2019, p. 6 , accessed on May 11, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '18.3 "  N , 12 ° 33' 35.1"  E