- Mittellandkanal
The Mittellandkanal (German for "midland canal") is, at 325.7 km, the longest artificial waterway in
Germany . It branches off theDortmund-Ems Canal atHörstel (nearRheine ), runs north along theTeutoburg Forest , pastHannover and meets with theElbe River atMagdeburg . At Magdeburg it connects to theElbe-Havel Canal , making a continuous shipping route toBerlin and on toPoland .At
Minden the canal crosses theWeser River over twoaqueduct s (the second completed in1998 ). Connections by side canals exist atOsnabrück ,Hildesheim andSalzgitter . West ofWolfsburg , the Elbe side canal branches off, providing (via theElbe-Lübeck Canal ) a connection to theBaltic Sea .Cities on the Mittellandkanal
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Ibbenbüren
*Osnabrück (via a branch)
*Bramsche
*Lübbecke
*Minden
*Garbsen
*Hannover
*Sehnde
*Hildesheim (via a branch)
*Peine
*Salzgitter (via a branch)
*Braunschweig
*Wolfsburg
*Haldensleben
*Magdeburg External links
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsd-m.wsv.de%2FWasserstrassen%2FMittellandkanal%2Findex.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Google's English translation of MLK webpage]
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