Velten branch canal
The Veltener Stichkanal (VSK) is a federal waterway in the German state of Brandenburg . From a geographical point of view, it forms the current lower reaches of the moat .
description
The canal branches off north of Hennigsdorf at kilometer 15.3 in a north-westerly direction from the federal waterway Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße (HOW), legally belongs to it and is designated as waterway class IV. It connects the port of Velten and an industrial area to the HOW. The branch channel crosses the course of the Muhre , which from now on flows here. The canal is 3.23 km long, the bottom width is 30 meters. It is designed for 600-ton ships . The canal made it possible to dispense with the land transport of the products from the furnace factories to the loading points at Hohenschöpping and at the Schwalbengrube. The Eberswalde Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for the administration .
history
construction
The history of the canal is closely connected to the stove tile and brick production in Velten , which was at its peak around 1900. The decision in favor of the canal is to be seen in connection with the large shipping route from Berlin to Stettin (today: Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße), which was built at the same time and ensured that Velten products could be transported quickly and comfortably to Berlin. Between 1906 and 1912, 237 hectares of land were transferred to community ownership for the construction of the canal . The canal was completed between 1910 and 1912 and the port was inaugurated in 1911. The costs amounted to 3.3 million marks .
As a result of the construction of the harbor, the moor trench , which previously continued into the Muhrgraben , now flows into the Havel with the branch canal.
Extension to the north
Originally a five-kilometer-long four-aisle industrial port was planned east of Velten, which was to lead from the branch canal to the large shipping route at Pinnow . An industrial railway should run along the canal. In 1923 a contract was signed with a settlement company. This had acquired 6,365 acres of land for the site . At the beginning of 1924, the construction of the canal began, which branches off at the bridge of the Hohenschöppinger Weg. Construction ended in April 1927 after just 1.7 km. The reason was the liquidity problems of the settlement company, which at the same time was still involved in the implementation of many other projects. a. on the Niederheide near Hohen Neuendorf . After the Second World War, the stump of the canal was divided by a dam about 250 m after the branch from the branch canal . In 2005 the cut piece was again divided by a road embankment.
Forerunner of the canal
As early as 1894 there was a canal between the Havel and the Kunststraße (road connection Velten – Hennigsdorf). It ran further south in an east-west direction and was much narrower. Its silted up remains were filled in during the expansion of the Hennigsdorf steelworks site .
Economical meaning
Shortly before the First World War, the Velten brickworks fell victim to the crisis on the Berlin hardware store. Soon after the war, the number of furnace factories also decreased considerably. Metal processing and chemical companies settled on the banks of the canal near Velten . Nevertheless, the use of the canal continued to decline, which was also due to the shift of freight traffic to rail and, after 1990, to road.
The actual transport of goods in 2005 was 77,291 t. In the next three years it fluctuated strongly with 63,427 t, 95,040 t and 47,644 t. In 2009 it was 122,490 t. Of this, 114,876 t (mainly building materials) were transported in the direction of the Velten harbor and 7,614 t (mainly agricultural and forestry products) in the direction of the Havel-Oder waterway. In 2010, the transport of goods remained relatively constant at 133,663 t (116,236 t in the direction of the port of Velten and 17,427 t in the direction of the Havel-Oder waterway).
literature
- Paul Dahms: Velten, A foray through the history of the furnace city , Veltener Verlags mbH, ISBN 978-3-9811401-8-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Brandenburg-Viewer: DTK10 with the moor ditch as a small flowing water and as a branch channel to the Veltener Hafen
- ↑ Directory E, serial no. 21 der Chronik ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration
- ↑ Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration
- ↑ Festschrift for the opening of the large shipping route Berlin – Stettin in 1914
- ↑ Traffic report 2006 of the Wasser und Schifffahrtsdirektion Ost p. 37 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 674 kB) accessed on January 25, 2011
- ↑ Traffic report 2007 of the Wasser und Schifffahrtsdirektion Ost p. 40 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 688 kB) accessed on January 25, 2011
- ↑ Traffic report 2009 of the Wasser und Schifffahrtsdirektion Ost p. 26 ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.5 MB) accessed on January 25, 2011
- ↑ Traffic report 2010 of the Wasser und Schifffahrtsdirektion Ost p. 26 ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) accessed on July 7, 2011
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ N , 13 ° 12 ′ 7 ″ E