Raft ditch
A raft ditch or raft ditch is a canal created for the purpose of rafting unprocessed wood . Many raft ditches were used to transport loose logs or firewood and not bound wood. In rafting, this method of transport is called trift .
The raft ditch belongs to the wood flooding system , together with giants and sections of the wild rafting (Trift). Some raft ditches are also called raft canals .
Examples
- Annaberger Floßgraben
- Dlouhá stoka (German raft ditch) in the Czech Slavkovský les (German Kaiserwald)
- Elsterfloßgraben between Gera, Halle and Leipzig
- Floßgraben (Havel) , an approximately 20 km long tributary of the Havel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Lütsche-Flößgraben in the Thuringian Forest
- Floßgraben (Leinacher Bach) , a brook in the Würzburg district that flows into the Leinacher Bach
- Floßgraben near Schlema , a 16th century canal in the Western Ore Mountains
- Flößgraben (Leinakanal) , a branch from the Apfelstädt to the Leinakanal near Georgenthal
- Neugraben rafts in the Ore Mountains
- Salinenfloßbach near Mutterstadt in Rhineland-Palatinate, today largely silted up
- Schwarzenbergscher Schwemmkanal in Bavaria / Czech Republic / Austria
- Floßgraben I and Floßgraben II, tributaries of the Zarow in Western Pomerania, see Zarow river system table