Canal cross Oranienburg
The Canal Cross Oranienburg is a waterway cross near the Brandenburg city of Oranienburg , north of Berlin. It has basically existed since the completion of the Oranienburg Canal in 1837. This crosses the Ruppin Canal, which has existed since the late 18th century . Due to the war-related destruction of the Sachsenhausen lock in 1945, which was not subsequently rebuilt, and the closure of the Friedenthal lock before 1960, the waterway intersection is currently only passable in its southwestern leg in the Oranienburg Canal and its northwest leg in the Ruppin Canal.
history
Around Oranienburg, the Havel had been a transport route for bulk goods since the early Middle Ages. With the construction of the mill and the damming of the flowing water, there were conflicts of interest between boatmen and mill operators. In this context, the arms of the Havel around the city were expanded like a canal.
The Ruppiner Canal was built in the late 18th century to create a connection to the Kremmener See , Ruppiner See and Neuruppin . So the canal was completed by 1791. For example, peat was transported from the Rhinluch to Berlin via the canal . Among other things, the Tiergarten and Friedenthal locks were built in what is now the city of Oranienburg, with the Friedenthal lock right at the junction between the Oranienburger Havel and the Ruppin Canal.
The Oranienburger Canal was developed as an artificial Havel arm between 1832 and 1837 due to the difficult shipping conditions below the Oranienburger mills. A course was chosen that branches off in the north from the so-called Friedrichsthaler Havel and in an arc bypasses the city to the west and flows into the Oranienburger Havel between Pinnow and Borgsdorf. It crosses the Ruppin Canal northwest of Oranienburg, which resulted in the Oranienburg Canal Cross. Two locks were built in the Oranienburg Canal, one in Sachsenhausen and one in Pinnow. After the Sachsenhausen lock was destroyed in 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War and was not rebuilt afterwards, after the completion of the so-called Großschiffahrtsweg Berlin-Stettin , freight shipping was and is primarily via the Oder-Havel Canal east of Oranienburg the canal cross can no longer be used for through traffic in a north-easterly direction. The canal cross lost further importance when the Friedenthal lock was filled in in 1960. This also meant that the passage in the south-eastern leg of the cross was abolished.
In the following decades the waterways lost their economic importance as transport routes. On the other hand, there was a sharp increase in water tourism and sports on the Brandenburg waterways, especially after the political change, so that the canal cross is now again heavily frequented from the Oranienburger to the Ruppiner Canal and vice versa, which also applies to waiting times in the summer months the existing locks. For this reason, the city of Oranienburg is again considering a new construction or the restoration of the Friedenthal and Sachsenhausen locks, also all the more so for water tourism between Berlin, the Lower Havel Waterway , the Ruppiner Waterway , the Upper Havel Waterway and the Benefit from the Oder-Havel Canal.
At the end of 2017, the new construction of the Friedenthal lock and thus the restoration of the continuity of the Oranienburger Havel was officially decided.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Integrated urban development concept Oranienburg 2020 . Accessed April 2, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 12 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 57 ″ E