Küsten Canal
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The easternmost section of the coastal canal in Oldenburg. Front: Amalienbrücke, rear: Cecilia Bridge
The Coastal Canal is a 70 -kilometer-long federal waterway connecting the Hunte in Oldenburg with the Dortmund -Ems Canal developed Ems Dörpen. Go to Coastal channel also includes the branch canal Dorpen, a 890 m -long bed of partly finished side channel Gleesen - Papenburg, belonging also to the waterways of class IV.
Course of Küstenkanal
The coastal canal branches off from the Hunte in Oldenburg in the west. He runs to the south of the country Bunting, cuts through the county north of Cloppenburg Friesoythe and the north of the district Emsland and hits the Dortmund -Ems Canal (Ems ) in Dörpen (south of Papenburg ). Almost its entire length of the channel is accompanied by the Coastal Canal Street, the main road 401
Structural development and use
In the eastern part, from Oldenburg to Kampe, the Coastal Canal was built in 1922 by the expansion of the 1893 completed Hunte- Ems Canal, originally a drainage channel for the Oldenburg Moore. This channel is in its north-western part from Kampe today as Elisabethfehn. After Oldenburg had extended from 1924 the channel of Kampe to the border, began in 1927, Prussia to the connection line between the Ems and the border. On September 28, 1935, the Coast channel was put into operation.
( Draft: ;; 8.20 m: 1.75 / 2.00 m Length 67.00 m width) was sizing the coast channel for the 600/750-t-Schiff. (2.00 m Length: 80.00 m;: ; Beam Draft 9,00 m ) allowed nave was also the 1,000 t ship.
The summit level of the canal is enclosed on the east by the lock Oldenburg and in the west by the lock Dörpen. The case height is in Oldenburg up to 5.40 m depending on the Tidewasserstand the Hunte and in Dörpen 1.20 m descent to dam Bollingerfähr the Ems. Conversely, the lock Dörpen shut off the coast channel against extreme EMS flood. The lock Oldenburg in 1927, the lock Dörpen 1935 put into operation. After repair of war damage, the Oldenburg line was 1948-1951 improved by dredging, an expanded southward channel profile and embankments. 1965-1985, the expansion for the 1,000 t ship was ( nave for the European ship 1350 tonnes ) performed.
Even today, the coast still main outfall channel is south of the canal for drainage and flood relief for areas Ems with a catchment area of 1045 km ² - Hunte, Leda / Jümme. Of the total catchment area of 237 km ² drain completely into the channel to feed the 63 km long summit level, added, when required, water from the Hunte. Peak flood from the rivers Ems promised, Soeste and Vehne be discharged into the canal and quickly and safely in roughly equal parts to EMS removed (via the EMS oxbow Goldfischdever ) and Hunte. To ensure the water level for navigation and to minimize fluctuations in water level, the inflows and outflows are controlled by an operating plan at the next federal and provincial departments and organizations are involved.
Main goods transported were at the beginning of peat, fodder and building materials. Continue to have bulk materials ( rocks and soils, food and feed ) the largest share of traffic. At the beginning of the 21st century came the container traffic. The locked- tonnage was between 2002 and 2009 at the lock Dörpen 3.3 to 4 million tonnes over 6000 commercial vessels. Promotional for vessel traffic, the since 1996 existing freight center ( LVN ) Emsland affect in Dörpen, a hub of transport modes road, rail and waterway, where 36% are taken from the road to the waterway from the transport volume.
However criticize representatives of business, that there is no plan in the Federal Ministry of Transport to make the channel for large barges passable.
Data of the coastal channel
- Water depth of 3.50 m
- Clear height under bridges 4,50 m
- Bridges over the canal: 31
- Locks: length 105 m, width 12 m
- Security gate Hundsmühlen at 5.17 km
- Sedelsberg security gate at km 41.06