Danube–Oder Canal
Called The Danube - Oder Canal, also Oder- Danube Canal (Polish: Odra- Kanał Dunaj ), is a configured artificial waterway of Vienna Lobau over the March through Moravia to the Oder at Cosel ( Koźle ) in Upper Silesia, the was not completed.
Even Emperor Charles IV in the 14th century had the vision of a navigable link between the rivers Oder and Danube. More thoughts on the construction of this waterway from the 19th century.
In 1903, the Austrian government had announced a competition for a ship lift of 35.9 meters at Prerau were received on the draft 204.
During the period of National Socialism, the plans for a canal were resumed, and there was a project of a waterway of 320 kilometers in length, which have their beginning on the Oder at Cosel ( Koźle ) and should end in Vienna and overcome a height difference of 124 meters would have.
On December 8, 1939, the then so -called Adolf Hitler channel, today Gliwice Canal was inaugurated by Rudolf Hess. At the same time he pointed out the groundbreaking ceremony for the outgoing Oder- Danube Canal. Work on the channel on the Upper Silesian side were reinstated in 1940.
From the planned in Austria about 40 kilometer course from Vienna to Angern an der March until the year 1940 only a few kilometers have been realized in the Lobau and Grossenzersdorf southeast of Vienna. Specifically, this four short pieces (labeled DOK I - IV). The first part of the Danube - Oder-Kanal (I) is clearly seen even on the northeastern shore of the tank port Wien- Lobau, one of Vienna's ports. The remaining three channel pieces ( DOK II - IV) are mainly used as a bathing and fishing waters. The DOK sections III-IV were parceled from the 1960s and are now made in a kind of allotments, these parts are out of Lobau and allergrößtenteils (only a small part of the DOK III is located in Vienna ) in the area of Lower Austria. DOK II, with a length of about 2.3 km, is situated in the area of the nature reserve Lobau National Park Donau-Auen, in contrast to the other two channel parts ( III - IV) and serves as a natural swimming lake. Situated in the Lobau part of the Danube - Oder-Kanal is also the widest and largest of the four completed channel sections.
Between 1964 and 1970, a part of the old plans by the People's Republic of Poland was taken up again and completed the branch from Gliwice channel. The finished, just a few kilometers long section is referred to now as Kandrziner channel (Polish channel Kędzierzyński ) and serves as a liaison between the nitrogen works Azoty Kędzierzyn AG and the Oder.
But even in the 1990s was advertised both in Austria and in the Czech Republic for a further construction. However, there were massive ecological concerns. The WWF 1999 presented a study showing that in a building a total of 61 nature reserves with a total area would be affected 400,000 hectares, as nowhere else in Europe vorkäme.