The Elster-Saale Canal (German: Elster-Saale-Kanal), renamed in 1999 by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration to Saale-Leipzig Canal (German: Saale-Leipzig-Kanal) or SLK[1] and on the Halle side also called Saale-Elster Canal, was a canal project started in 1933 and aborted in 1943. It was intended to link the White Elster river with the Saale near Leuna and thus enable the city of Leipzig to be joined to Germany's inland waterway network. The 11 kilometre long water-filled channel is one of the "special federal waterways".[1]
Start of the Elster-Saale Canal at Lindenau Harbour
A lock was built near Wusteneutzch which would have allowed canal freight traffic to connect with the Saale; however the canal never reached this point. This link would have given Leipzig access to the Elbe via the Saale and thus to Hamburg and the North Sea. The canal was planned for ships up to 1,000 tonnes in weight (roughly Class IV).
Plans to complete the canal have been revived and an Elster-Saale Canal Society has been formed.
Wolfram Sturm, Leipzig und seine Schiffskanäle. Leipzig, 1998.
Dirk Becker (2009), Der Südflügel des Mittellandkanals: Per Schiff von Magdeburg über Merseburg nach Leipzig (in German) (1. ed.), Halle: Projekte-Verlag, ISBN3866346093
Denis Achtner (2008), "Der Elster-Saale-Kanal" (pdf excerpt), Böhlitzer Hefte (in German), vol. Band 2 (2. ed.), Leipzig: Creativ Werbeagentur Kolb[permanent dead link]
Referencesedit
^ abVerzeichnis F der Chronik 2016-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elster-Saale Canal.
Photos and information on the Elster-Saale Canal and Karl-Heine Canal at www.ostwall.com
Photos and information on the Elster-Saale Canal and Karl-Heine Canal at www.verkehrsrelikte.de
Saale-Leipzig Canal in the electronic waterway information system (ELWIS) 2011-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
Official homepage of the Saale-Elster Canal Society (English version)
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