Pieter Caland

Pieter Caland ( born July 23, 1827 in Zierikzee; † July 12, 1902 in Wageningen ) was a Dutch engineer. For the National Water and Shipping Authority Rijkswaterstaat he headed from 1866 to 1872 the design and implementation of the New Waterway, the artificial Rheinarms, which leads through the port of Rotterdam to the North Sea.

The visionaries project was not without problems and setbacks. A section of the canal had to be dug by a wide range of dunes. With costly measures needed to prevent the fairway again fully ran with mud. These and other unexpected expenditure led to a significant excess of the cost framework, was heavily criticized for the Caland.

However, the rise of the port of Rotterdam, the largest port in the world made ​​the construction of decades later paid in full.

A canal and a bridge in the harbor ( near Rozenburg ) and a line of the Rotterdam metro are named after Caland. The Rotterdam Built in 1906 on the former Van Hogendorpsplein Caland memorial in Dutch Calandmonument was built in 1938 moved to the Rotterdam Veerkade.

• Hydraulic engineer
• Person (Rotterdam)
• Netherlander
• Born in 1827
• Died in 1902
• Man