Bydgoszcz Canal

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The Bydgoszcz Canal (Polish Kanał Bydgoski ), connects the Brda ( Brahe ) near Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) with the networks ( Noteć ) at Nakło nad Notecią ( Nakel ).

The canal was built in the years 1773 to 1774 after the Prussian annexation of western Poland ( first partition of Poland ) by such Brenkenhoff. The Vistula River in the east was connected to the Warta and the Oder in the West and thus a combination of the most important waterways in the region. In addition to the Finowkanal and Plau channel (see Elbe- Havel Canal ) this was the third major sewer construction project in the time of Frederick the Great.

A law of the German Empire from April 1, 1905 decreed the extension of the 26 km long canal. The expansion, which was completed only in 1917, made the old channel now for Finow measure barges passable. 1920, the canal was handed over to Poland.

For the construction of the canal approximately 20,000 workers were from, inter alia, Saxony, Thuringia, Anhalt and fetched the Sudetenland. They settled along the channel in the so-called channel colonies A, B, and C, which later became the present-day districts in the West were Bromberg. 5,000 people lost their lives in the construction of the canal. The costs amounted to over 2 million marks.

The portion of the channel between Bydgoszcz and Nakło nad Notecią was called in the 18th and 19th centuries also long junk.

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Photos

Canal in the city of Bydgoszcz Park - west of the sluice VI

Bromberger channel at Miedzyń

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz channel - in the background the Parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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