The Two Canals that now flow through Schleswig-Holstein are the "Kiel Canal"
("Nordsee-Ostsee Kanal," formerly known as the "Kaiser-Wilhelm Kanal.") Which runs from the river Elbe at Brunsbuttle to the Kieler-Forde at the Baltic.
The other one is the "Elbe-Lübeck Kanal" running from Lauenburg (on the Elbe) and ends in Lübeck.
The Nordsea-Ostsea canal was built in the closing years of the nineteeth century, but it replaced earlier waterway, The Eider-Canal, which was designed to replace the sea voyage around Jutland, and through the Cattegat and the sound.
The Elbe-Lübeck Kanal, which supplied salt, was built at the same time, 1896 to 1900, out of the Stecknitz-canal that had existed since the fourteenth century!
Another canal, built in the sixteenth century, is the The Alster-Beste Kanal, which connected Hamburg to Lübeck. This canal only lasted twenty years, and hasn't any replacement!
Another canal system which connects Wismar and Luneberg is in the state of Mecklenburg.
This Wallensteingraben connects the Schweriner lake with the Baltic sea.
This WebPage is designed to help the enthusiast that is attracted to the Lost Canals of Schleswig-Holstein.
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