Piast Canal

Kanał Piastowski, translated Piastenkanal, is since 1945 the name of the 1875 built until 1880 when Emperor ride and now located in Poland canal, which connects the Swine (Polish Świna ) south of the port city of Świnoujście ( Swinoujscie ) with the Szczecin Lagoon and thus the Oder.

The twelve -kilometer-long waterway with a depth of about ten meters bypasses the hard drive- eastern course of Swine. By favoring the shipping between the Baltic Sea and Szczecin (Szczecin), it reduced the rise of the port of Stettin and a decline of the port of Swinoujscie, from that moment, deep-sea vessels to pass to Stettin. On the other hand, wore Opened in 1875 the railway line from Berlin to Swinoujscie on the bridge at Karnin ( since 1945 interrupted) to the rise of Świnoujście and its neighboring towns as seaside resorts in.

The construction of the Emperor ride an eastern part of the island of Usedom by the village Karsibór ( Kaseburg ) was separated and the island between Kaiserfahrt and age Swine. The island is today Karsibór connected by a small bridge to the island of Wolin.

By 2010, the new piers were completed at the south exit of the channel for approximately € 30 million as the most important water construction project in the region. They are several hundred meters long.