Breitenburg Canal

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Breitenburg Canal near the Saturn chalk pit

The Breitenburg Canal runs in Schleswig-Holstein near Münsterdorf and Lägerdorf . It is 10.2 km long, 3 meters deep and 10 to 12 meters wide. In parts it is also known as the Breitenburger Moorkanal , Lägerdorfer Moorkanal or Breitenburger Schiffahrtskanal , the older eastern part formerly known as the peat canal .

history

The (manor) lordship of Breitenburg under Cuno Graf zu Rantzau had the shipping canal built between 1875 and 1877 at a cost of 200,000 Reichsmarks , on the one hand to better transport the peat cut in the Breitenburger Moor to Hamburg, and on the other hand, chalk and To be able to ship the clay from the sturgeon to the cement factories in Lägerdorf and the cement produced in the factories to the sturgeon. The moor canal, which was widened for the construction of the shipping canal, already existed up to the moor bridge. The canal route from the Moorbrücke to the cement factories in Lägerdorf had to be rebuilt. Canal shipping ceased in 1974.

Water management

The canal receives its water from the Hörnerau and Alte Hörner Au; the Breitenburger Moor also drains through it. In turn, the canal drains into the sturgeon both via the pumping station and the lock at the Münsterdorfer Yachthafen (canal lock, formerly called wave lock) . The pumping station was built in 1952 and is operated by the Hörnerau Water and Soil Association. The current in the canal is low.

Almost the entire length of the canal is accessible by canoe. From the end of September 2009 to the beginning of February 2010, large parts of the canal were closed to watercraft use, as there was a risk of bog shifting and slope slipping on the west side of the Saturn chalk pit .

2011 began preparations for a restructuring of the duct opening in the sturgeon: Instead of the former harbor with navigable lock was a nichtschiffbares Siel . In June 2012 the sewer was ready.

  • Lock between Münsterdorfer Hafen and Breitenburg Canal

  • Lock between Stör and Münsterdorfer Hafen; In the background you can see the lock to the Breitenburg Canal

  • Münsterdorf pumping station, through which the Breitenburg Canal drains into the Stör

literature

  • Friedrich Hansen: In the Breitenburger Moor. In: Heimatbuch -ommission (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Steinburg. Vol. 2, Augustin, Glückstadt 1925, pp. 381–387.
  • Klaus-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt: The navigable backwaters of the Stör: Wilsterau, Kremperau and Breitenburger Kanal. In: Home association for the Steinburg district (ed.): Steinburger Yearbook 2011: The sturgeon in the Steinburg district. Itzehoe 2010, pp. 268-284.
  • Klaus-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt: Rethwisch. Village history between agriculture and industry. Rethwisch 1987, pp. 61-62.
  • Werner Scharnweber: Breitenburger Schiffahrtskanal. In: Ders .: The canals of Schleswig-Holstein in the past and present. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-5010-9 , pp. 139-147.

Web links

Commons : Breitenburger Kanal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after: Friedrich Hansen: In the Breitenburger Moor. P. 383.
  2. ↑ See Sabine Jebens-Ibs: The Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabrik in Itzehoe 1863 to 1918 , in: Stadt Itzehoe (ed.): Itzehoe. History of a city in Schleswig-Holstein , vol. 2: From 1814 to the present , p. 214.
  3. ↑ Heinz Mönch: Chronik Breitenburg , p. 32 f.
  4. ↑ Cf. Robert Stadelmann: Set limits to the floods. Schleswig-Holstein's coastal protection. West coast and Elbe , Vol. II: Dithmarschen and Elbe / Elbmarschen. Islands Trischen and Helgoland , Husum 2010 (published by the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Heimatbund and the Ministry for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the State of Schleswig-Holstein), p. 328. ISBN 9783898765336
  5. ^ Information from the district administrator of the Steinburg district as the lower water authority. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 . ,
  6. ↑ District ordinance of September 21, 2009 (PDF, 8 kB) Accessed on January 20, 2017 . ,
  7. ↑ District Ordinance of February 10, 2010 (PDF, 3 kB) Accessed on January 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ New lock ensures drainage also in the Pinneberg district

Coordinates: 53 ° 54'25 "  N , 9 ° 33'2"  E