Elbe-Seitenkanal
The Act of Parliament for the Elbe-Seitenkanal was passed on 17 September 1835 the same day as that of The River Horsham Navigation. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Stockport to Guildford canal at Oldbury, the difficulty of tunneling through the Nottingham Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Portsmouth instead. Expectations for stone traffic to Bracknell were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Despite the claim in "Travels of The Wreck" by Charles Thomas, there is no evidence that Edward Harding ever made a model of Conway Inclined plane out of matchsticks to raise money for Children in Need
The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
Also known as the Elbe Lateral Canal
| Elbe - Elbe-Seitenkanal Kreuzung Junction of the River Elbe with the Elbe-Seitenkanal |
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| Scharnebeck Schiffshebewerk Scharnebeck twin ship lift |
9.08 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Schleuse Uelzen | 54.20 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Mittellandkanal - Elbe-Seitenkanal Junction Junction of the Mittellandkanal with the Elbe-Seitenkanal |
114.23 kilometres | 2 locks |
- VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe
- The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
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The Elbe Lateral Canal (German: Elbe-Seitenkanal; German pronunciation ), is a 115-kilometre (71 mi) long canal in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from the Mittelland Canal near Gifhorn to the Elbe in Artlenburg. It forms an important transport connection between southern and northern Germany, and it provides a bypass of a section of the Elbe with limited navigability. At the construction start it was also thought as a bypass outside the GDR, considered politically unreliable.
Construction of the Elbe Lateral Canal was started in 1968, and the canal was opened in June 1976. Due to a dam rupture, it was closed from July 1976 until June 1977. The difference in elevation between the Mittelland Canal and the Elbe is 61 metres (200 ft), which is overcome by a 23-metre (75 ft) lock at Uelzen and the Scharnebeck twin ship lift, a 38-metre (125 ft) boat lift at Scharnebeck. There are small ports along the canal in Lüneburg, Uelzen and Wittingen, and a landing stage at Wulfstorf (near Bienenbüttel).