Canal Bydgoski

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Kanał Bydgoski
(Bydgoszcz Canal)
Map showing the location of the canal

Map showing the location of the canal

location Poland :
Kujawsko-pomorskie
length 26 km
Built 1773-1774
Expanded 1914-1917
Beginning Brda near Bydgoszcz
The End Noteć at Nakło nad Notecią
Descent structures Okole, Czyżkówko, Prądy, Osowa Góra, Józefinki, Nakło Wschód
1894 German plan.jpg
Plan from 1894

The Kanał Bydgoski ( German  Bromberger Kanal ) connects the Brda (Brahe) at Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) with the Noteć (Netze) at Nakło nad Notecią (Nakel) and thus forms a navigable connection between the Vistula and the Oder .

history

With the annexation of West Prussia and the network district as a result of the first partition of Poland , Prussia gained the land connection between the provinces of Pomerania and Brandenburg with East Prussia . As a first infrastructure measure, Friedrich the Great had Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff built the Bromberg Canal in the annexed area from 1773 to 1774 to connect the Vistula to the Brahe in the east via Netze and Warthe with the Oder in the west. This gave Prussia a connection to the central Berlin- Brandenburg area. For the construction of the canal about 6000 workers u. a. brought from Saxony , Thuringia , Anhalt , Swabia and Bohemia . They settled along the channel in the so-called channel colonies A, B and C low. The cost was 687,806 thalers . The remains of Colony A are now in the Osowa Góra (High Oak) district of the city of Bydgoszcz.

With the Finow Canal and the Plauer Canal (see Elbe-Havel Canal ), this was the third major canal construction project by the government of Frederick the Great to connect the Vistula river basin over the Havel to that of the Elbe .

A law of the German Empire of April 1, 1905 ordered the expansion of the 26 km long canal. The expansion, which was only completed in 1917, made the canal passable for Finow Maß barges . The costs amounted to over two million marks. In 1920 the canal was handed over to Poland.

The part of the canal between Bromberg and Nakel was also called the long junk in the 18th and 19th centuries .

Locks

No. Surname Location Height difference construction time Last renovation
1 Lock Okole Bydgoszcz - Okole 7.58 m 1913-1915 -
2 Czyżkówko lock Bydgoszcz - Flisy 7.52 m 1913-1915 -
3 Prądy lock Bydgoszcz - Prądy 3.82 m 1774 1914
4th Osowa Góra lock Bydgoszcz - Osowa Góra 3.55 m 1774 1914
5 Józefinki lock Nakło nad Notecią 1.83 m 1774 1914
6th Nakło Wschód lock Nakło nad Notecią 1.91 m 1774 1914

photos

  • The Canal - on the right bank the remains of the Colony A Canal

  • Canal in the Bydgoszcz City Park

  • Canal near Miedzyń

  • Canal in Bydgoszcz

  • Prądy lock in Prądy

  • Former Canal Colony B in 1944

Web links

Commons : Bromberger Kanal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Bydgoszcz Canal  Travel Guide

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Gerd Heinrich: Frederick the Great and the Prussian waterway policy . In: Helmut Neuhaus (ed.): Constitution and administration. Festschrift for Kurt GA Jeserich on his 90th birthday . Böhlau, Cologne 1994, ISBN 978-3-412-09993-0 , pp. 103–123, here pp. 119–122.