Mittelkanal (Hamburg-Hammerbrook)

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Central channel
location Hamburg-Hammerbrook , Hamburg-Hamm , Hamburg-Borgfelde
length 3.5 km
Beginning Rückerskanal
The End Lock canal ( Hammerbrook lock )
Junctions, crossings Sonninkanal , flood basin
Used river Bille
Mittelkanal.jpg
The canal seen from the Second Heidenkamp Bridge
course
   
 0.000
   
 0.190 Rückersweg
   
 0.290 Branch Rückerskanal
   
 0.520 First diagonal bridge
   
 0.675 First Osterbrook Bridge
   
 0.915 First Borstelmann Bridge
   
 1,250 First Luisenbrücke
   
 1.730 First Greven Bridge
   
 2.090 First breakout bridge
   
 2,440 Hamburg-Berlin railway line
   
 2.510 Stoltenpark footbridge
   
 2,580 Flood basin
   
 2,660 Second Heidenkampbrücke
   
 3.010 Second Hammerbrook Bridge
   
 3.020 S-Bahn Hamburg-Harburg
   
 3,250 Second nail bridge
   
 3,460 Junction Sonninkanal
   
 3,500 Second Amsinck Bridge
   
 Transition into lock canal

The Mittelkanal is a canal in the Hamburg districts of Hammerbrook , Hamm and Borgfelde , which connects the Oberhafen with the tributaries of the Bille . According to the Hamburg Water Act, it is classified as a first-order body of water. The canal got its name because it was originally located in the middle between the North Canal and the South Canal - however, the North Canal was filled in after the Second World War and built over with today's Nordkanalstrasse .

The canal was built after the Hamburg fire of 1842 according to plans by William Lindley and was part of a comprehensive canal project to develop Hammerbrooks. Originally it only reached as far as the flood basin, but after 1880 it was extended further east along with the southern canal.

The passage over the "Schleusenkanal" extension of the Mittelkanal to the Oberhafen and the Elbe over the Hammerbrookschleuse is currently not possible due to construction work (2019), but there is a transition over the flood basin and over the Rückerskanal to the Bille and thus over the Tiefstackschleuse or the Brandshofer lock to the Elbe.

  • Station of the S3 over the canal

  • The Sonninhof at the confluence of the Sonnin Canal and the Mittelkanal

  • A sculpture by Anja Kleinhans above the canal is reminiscent of the former working class district of Hammerbrook

Plan by William Lindley (1844)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Water Act (HWaG) , Hamburg, December 14, 2007

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  E