Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne

Channel system in the Champagne- Ardenne region. Bottom right begins the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne

The Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne ( German: canal between Champagne and Burgundy ) is a French Ship Canal, which runs through the regions of Champagne- Ardenne, Lorraine and Burgundy. Previously, the channel was ( German: Marne -Saône Canal) as Canal de la Marne à la Saône called.

Geography

With its length of 228 km, it links the valleys of the Rivers Marne and the Saône and is part of an inland waterway, the north-west France and Belgium connects with the Mediterranean. This route consists of the following waterways:

  • Canal du Nord
  • Lateral Canal à l' Oise
  • Canal de l' Oise à l' Aisne
  • Lateral Canal à l' Aisne
  • Lateral Canal à la Marne
  • Canal de l' Aisne à la Marne
  • Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne
  • Saône - as channeled flow
  • Rhône - as channeled flow

Development and technical infrastructure

The canal is a watershed channel and starts at Vitry -le- François, where it connected to the Canal de la Marne au Rhin ( German: Rhein- Marne Canal ) ( German: Marne- side channel ) and the Lateral Canal à la Marne has. It runs generally in a southeasterly direction. Its ten -kilometer-long summit level on the plateau of Langres also overcomes the main European watershed. The summit level is the 4,820 m long tunnel of Balesmes -sur -Marne, who crossed in one-way traffic. Unlike other French canal tunnels it is illuminated. Another 300 m long tunnel is Condes, just north of Chaumont. This tunnel is the only one in the French waterways, which can be ridden in both directions due to its width of 18 m. In Heuilley -sur -Saône, the channel opens into the channeled here Saône.

The height difference to the Marne valley is 240 m and is overcome by 71 locks, that the Saône valley is 150 m and required 43 locks. The channel has Freycinet Dimensions ( lock dimensions: 38.5 m length and 5.20 m width, the maximum draft is 1.80 m). The channel is fed by four reservoirs: Lac de Charmes, Lake Liez ( east or north-east of Langres ), Lac de Perrancey (also Réservoir de la Mouche, west of Langres ) and Lac de Villegusien (including Lac de la Vingeanne, at Longeau, south of Langres ).

Coordinates

  • Source of the canal: 48 ° 43 ' 47 " N, 4 ° 36' 24 " O48.7297222222224.6066666666667Koordinaten: 48 ° 43 ' 47 " N, 4 ° 36' 24" E
  • Endpoint of the channel: 47 ° 19 ' 51 " N, 5 ° 27' 54" O47.3308333333335.465

By Crossed departments

  • Marne
  • Haute -Marne
  • Côte- d'Or

East of Saint- Dizier which the duct to a length of three kilometers through the Lorraine Meuse, during his descent to the Saône he touches also marginally the department of Haute- Saône.

Places on the canal

  • Vitry -le- François
  • Saint- Dizier
  • Joinville
  • Chaumont
  • Langres
  • Heuilley -sur -Saône

History

The northern section has already been taken under the name Canal de la Haute -Marne in 1862 in operation. The channel in its present form was completed in 1907.

Economic Importance

Cargo shipping has gradually lost its importance. The water tourism with sports and houseboats is under construction. The canal towpath is expanded as part of the French cycling network and also of tourist interest.

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