Midland Canal

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Course of the Midland Canal.

old and new Mittellandkanal at the canal crosses near Minden

The Midland Canal (German: Mittellandkanal) is, at 325,7 km, the longest artificial waterway in Germany. It branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine), runs north along the Teutoburg Forest, past Hannover and meets with the Elbe River at Magdeburg. At Magdeburg it connects to the Elbe-Havel Canal, making a continuous shipping route to Berlin and on to Poland. At Minden the canal crosses the Weser River on two viaducts (the second completed in 1998). Connections by side canals exist at Osnabrück, Hildesheim and Salzgitter. West of Wolfsburg, the Elbe side canal branches off, providing (via the Elbe-Lübeck Canal) a connection to the Baltic Sea. Cities on the Mittellandkanal are:

Panorama of the Braunschweiger Hafen Section of the Midland Canal (Mittelland Kanal) at Watenbüttel, Brunswick, Germany

The Mittellandkanal near Minden

Mittelland Kanal / River Weser Lock at Minden, Germany taken in 1977

• Ibbenbüren
• Osnabrück (via a branch)
• Bramsche
• Lübbecke
• Minden
• Garbsen
• Hannover
• Sehnde
• Hildesheim (via a branch)
• Peine
• Salzgitter (via a branch)
• Braunschweig
• Wolfsburg
• Haldensleben
• Magdeburg

[edit] External links

• Google's English translation of MLK webpage