Lip lateral canal
During the planning and construction phase before and after the First World War, the Lippe Side Canal was the name given to the federal waterways Datteln-Hamm Canal and Wesel-Datteln Canal on the northern edge of the Ruhr area parallel to the Lippe on its south side.
The eastern part, the Datteln-Hamm Canal, was completed in 1914 to Hamm and 1933 to Schmehausen , has two canal levels and is 47.1 km long. The western part, the Wesel-Datteln Canal, was completed in 1931, has six canal steps and is 60 km long.
literature
- Chronicle (PDF; 1.32 MB) on the legal status of the Reich waterways / inland waterways of the federal government in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany after October 3, 1990, Appendix A, serial number 100
- Meyer's Lexicon on Lippe Lateral Canal
- Route of industrial culture : Werries lock on the Lippe side canal and other structures
- Werner Koppe: The Lippewasserstrasse - shipping on the Lippe and the Lippe side canal as part of the history of inland navigation in north-west Germany . Regional history publishing company, 2004, ISBN 3-89534-438-9
- M. Eckoldt (Hrsg.): Rivers and canals, The history of the German waterways . DSV-Verlag, 1998