KÅ‚odnica Canal

The Klodnitzkanal (Polish Kanał Klodnicki ) was created in the years 1792-1812 as a waterway between the cities of Gliwice and Cosel designed by the Scottish engineer John Baildon ( 1772-1846 ). The artificial waterway connects the rivers Oder and Klodnitz on a length of less than 50 kilometers. Its exact length is approximately 46 km with an altitude difference of about 49 m.

Genesis

After the onset of the late 18th century heyday of coal and ore mining and metallurgical industry in the Upper Silesian area has been an urgent need for a connection on the Oder, in order to transport the products on the waterway can. Since the Klodnitz was not navigable, it was decided to build a canal beside the river.

However, the depth of the channel and the design of the locks only the use of vessels of up to 50 t load capacity allowed. For larger ships that could operate on the Finowkanal eg, the Klodnitzkanal was not passable.

A first lock, which served mainly a movement of goods on the Oder ships, was in Klodnitz. At the second and third lock in Kędzierzyn - Pogorzelletz was the insertion of the raft timber from the nearby Upper Silesian forests.

With the connection of the Upper Silesian coalfield to the railway, the importance of the canal declined rapidly. 1847 still a quantity of goods of 70,000 tonnes shipped on the canal, this was in 1865 only 4400 tons.

Between 1888 and 1893 the canal was again expanded, so that now the passage of ships up to 100 tons load and 1.20 m Draft was possible. His initial meaning never regained the channel.

The Klodnitzkanal has been in its function replaced by the developed in the years 1934-1939 Gliwice channel.

• Channel in Poland
• River system or
• Mining (Poland )
• Building in Silesia
• Traffic ( Gliwice )
• Building in Gliwice
• Built in the 1810s
• Channel in Europe