Misburg branch canal

Misburg branch canal
abbreviation	SKM
location	Germany: Lower Saxony
length	3.3 km / federal waterway 0.6 km
Built	1914-16
Expanded	2007
class	Vb (to Misburger Hafen)
Beginning	Branch from the Mittelland Canal
The End	Teutonia cement plant, KWST
Kilometrage	ascending towards Misburger Hafen
Downhill	Direction MLK
Competent authority	WSA Mittelland Canal / Elbe Lateral Canal

Branch canal in the area of the Misburg harbor (west of the road bridge)

Branch canal after the port facility (east of the road bridge)

Motorsport harbor on the branch canal

The end: the loading point of the cement plant

The Misburg branch canal (SKM) in Hanover is a branch of the Mittelland Canal . It is the federal waterway to the Misburg harbor . It lies on the border between the Hanoverian districts of Misburg-Nord and Misburg-Süd .

course

The branch of the branch canal is at MLK-km 171.142. As a federal waterway up to SKM-km 0.919, for which the newly created waterways and shipping office Mittellandkanal / Elbe-Seitenkanal has been responsible since February 5, 2020 (previously the waterways and shipping office Braunschweig), it leads to the Misburg harbor. From there to km 1.780 is the area of the Misburger Hafengesellschaft . The port area south of the branch canal has a size of approx. 20 ha and a quay length of 280 m.

After the port facility, the branch canal continues to the motorsport port of the Hanoverian Motorboat Club (HMC) with a slipway (at km 2.5) and then branches off to the transshipment point of the Teutonia cement plant and into an approximately 800 m long arm, which is at the fuel factory KWST (Kraul & Wilkening and Stelling) ends.

The total length of the branch canal is approx. 3.3 km.

history

Today's branch canal was initially built from 1914 to 1916 as the Mittelland Canal up to the Misburg harbor and ended with a turning point at km 172.263. After the end of the First World War , a new route was chosen for the further expansion of the Mittelland Canal. Today's branch canal was created from the old stretch.

North of the branch canal, the now decommissioned Deurag-Nerag oil refinery built an oil transshipment port in the 1930s . Since the industrial plant was an important target in World War II, the branch canal was covered by camouflage nets in the last years of the war in order to deprive the approaching bombers of a prominent landmark.

During the operation of the Deurag-Nerag before the turning point, a railway bridge ran across the branch canal , which connected the tracks of the northern part with the siding to the Hanover freight bypass . The bridge was demolished after the refinery was closed. The location and track are still clearly visible today.

expansion

The extension of the branch canal for larger types of ships to the Misburg port (corresponding to the extension of the Mittelland Canal) was completed in October 2007. On the south side next to the existing port facilities, a near-natural shallow water zone was created as part of the expansion in the area of the former oil transshipment port .

The water level of the SKM is 33 m with a water depth of 4.0 m (to Misburg harbor, then 3.5 m). There is a turning point at SKM- km 0.800.

Industrial companies

Numerous larger industrial companies are connected directly to the branch canal or via the port area, such as

Jungenthal Waggon GmbH
VTG-LEHNKERING AG tank farm
Concrete plant Quick-Mix Hannover GmbH & Co. KG
Tönsmeier disposal
HeidelbergCement Zementwerk Hannover GmbH, formerly Teutonia cement works
Kraul & Wilkening and Stelling GmbH - KWST (alcohol production)

Web links

Commons : Stichkanal Misburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Directorate-General Waterways and Shipping : Lengths of the main shipping lanes of the federal inland waterways, Part 4: List 2. Accessed on June 5, 2019 . Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration

↑ General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping : Waterways: Chronicle. Retrieved June 5, 2019 . Directory E, serial no. 33 der Chronik ( Memento from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration

↑ Image of the KWST company premises with the end of the branch channel

↑ Eyewitness accounts of other citizens

^ Press release from the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration of October 25, 2007

↑ Misburg branch canal is being expanded. In: Press release No. 2/2006. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, New Construction Office for the expansion of the Mittelland Canal in Hanover, August 7, 2006, accessed on December 7, 2015 .

[laenge-1] Directorate-General Waterways and Shipping : Lengths of the main shipping lanes of the federal inland waterways, Part 4: List 2. Accessed on June 5, 2019 . Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration

[2] General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping : Waterways: Chronicle. Retrieved June 5, 2019 . Directory E, serial no. 33 der Chronik ( Memento from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration

[3] Image of the KWST company premises with the end of the branch channel

[4] Eyewitness accounts of other citizens

[5] Press release from the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration of October 25, 2007

[6] Misburg branch canal is being expanded. In: Press release No. 2/2006. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, New Construction Office for the expansion of the Mittelland Canal in Hanover, August 7, 2006, accessed on December 7, 2015 .