Gosen Canal

The Gosen Canal ( GoK ) is a section of the federal waterway, the waterway Seddinsee and Gosen Canal (WSG ) is called and legally part of the Spree- Oder waterway, in Berlin. It connects the Seddinsee with the Dämeritzsee. The channel thus represents a connection between the Spree- Oder waterway and the Rüdersdorfer waters and its industrial sites. The GoK is recognized as a waterway class III. Responsible for managing the Water and Shipping Authority Berlin.

Parallel to Gosen Canal runs to the east of Gosen ditch which must be traveled but only by small pleasure boats.

The channel

The total length of the channel between the Seerändern is 2.8 km ( WSG- km 2.90 to 5.73 ). A lock was not necessary in the channel, since there is only a low water level difference between the lakes. It was built for Plau - degree - ships, was 2.25 meters deep, had a bed width of 16 meters and a width of 30 meters water level. In 1993, a unilateral widening of the channel with shore sheet piling and a recess to 3.00 m was completed.

About the channel leads the New Fahlberg bridge. She leads the Gosener highway ( L 39 ) between Gosen - Neu Zittau and Müggelheim over the water.

History

In 1872 there was a plan to make a navigable canal between two lakes during the Gosener trench. An expansion of the waterway in 1891, together with the Oder- Spree Canal could not be realized. In a later planning you moved the channel route west of Gosen trench in the urban Berlin continuous forest to escape a compensation of more than 100 property owners in a development of Gosen trench. By first clearing work on the preparation of Kanalbaues the early 1920s began. As a result of inflation in 1924, but work has been set. The first sod was officially only in August 1933 led. End of January 1936 was the opening to traffic and the official designation Gosen Canal by the Ministry of Transport.

Reasons for the sewer

• Shortening the distance between the industrial area to the Rüdersdorfer waters and the industry to Niederlehme and King Wusterhausen to 18 km
• Improving road safety on the surrounding waterways by their discharge
• Cultivation and drainage measures
• However, the most important and bauentscheidende reason was to circumvent the regatta course in Berlin- Grunau for the time of the Summer Olympics in 1936. Perhaps there would have been demands for compensation by skippers at a block the waterway during the time of the Olympics.

Maps and Images

Location of the Berlin waterways

Passenger ships in Gosen Canal August 1976