Canal Piastowski

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The Kaiserfahrt = Piast Canal

Piast Canal translated Piastenkanal is, since 1945, the name of 1875-1880 as Kaiserfahrt built canal on the island of Usedom , the Swine (Pol. Świna south of the port city) Swinoujscie ( Świnoujście ) with the Szczecin Lagoon and the Oder connects. Today the channel lies in the Polish part of the island.

The northern part of the canal at the city was called Mellin-Fahrt and bypassed the sanding Heide-Fahrt. He cut through the old island "Big Mellin" and then reached the old Swine. The actual “Kaiserfahrt” then began on the island of “Kleiner Mellin”.

The twelve-kilometer-long shipping route with a water depth of about ten meters bypasses the difficult-to-navigate eastern old course of the Swine. This waterway was often silted up and constantly had to be dredged. Since then, seagoing vessels have been able to operate the canal between the Baltic Sea and Szczecin with less risk , which led to the rise of the port of Szczecin and the decline of the port of Świnoujście. On the other hand, the railway line from Berlin to Swinoujscie , which was put into operation in 1876, over the bridge near Karnin (interrupted since 1945) contributed to the rise of Swinoujscie and its neighboring towns as seaside resorts.

With the construction of the Kaiserfahrt, an eastern part of the island of Usedom was separated around the village of Kaseburg ( Karsibór ) and became an island between the Kaiserfahrt and the old Swine. The island of Karsibór is now connected to the island of Wolin by a new bridge from 2010 .

From 2002 to 2004, the two piers at the southern exit of the canal into the Haff were modernized and significantly extended for around 30 million euros as an important hydraulic engineering project in the region. The new east pier is around 430 m long, the west pier 550 m, they each have a new pier light at their southeast end . The two 25 m high towers of the gate fire at the previous south exit of the canal remained in function.

  • Satellite image of Kanal and Swine

  • The state of Kanal and Swine around 1880 with additions made up to 1920

  • Map from 1893

Web links

Commons : Piastenkanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Piasts , which died out in their last ( Silesian ) branch in 1675 , had nothing to do with the construction of the canal, except perhaps that an old inheritance treaty with Silesian Piasts served the Kingdom of Prussia as an excuse to appropriate Silesia in the 18th century. As a result, the kingdom increased its population by half and came into possession of almost the entire course of the Oder. See First Silesian War . After 1945 it was an arbitrary choice of name by the Polish authorities.
  2. ↑ New pier lights on the Kaiserfahrt / Pistowski Canal. In: Beacon. No. 69, Winter 2014, ZDB -ID 1151352-4 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 4 "  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 10"  E