Kłodnica Canal
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The Kłodnicki Canal (Polish: Kanał Kłodnicki) is a canal along the Kłodnica River in Upper Silesia, Poland between the Oder River and Gliwice. Constructed when the territory was part of Prussian Silesia, it was originally known as the Klodnitz Canal (German: Klodnitzkanal).
Because the Kłodnica (Klodnitz) was not navigable, a canal was needed to provide transportation for the flourishing coal and ore mining, as well as the metallurgy industry in the Upper Silesia region. Designed by John Baildon, an engineer from Scotland and Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, Director of the High Mining Office in Breslau (Wrocław), the canal was built between 1792 and 1812. It had a length of about 46 km (29 mi) and an altitude difference of about 49 meters (161 ft). It incorporated two hybrid inclined track/ canal locks.[1]
The depth of the canal and the design of the
The Klodnitz Canal facility was replaced by the Gleiwitz (Gliwice) Canal, built from 1935-1939. The territory became part of Poland in 1945 after World War II.
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Notes
- ^ Early canal inclined planes in Silesia www.mikeclarke.myzen.co.uk, accessed 21 August 2022
External links
- Szymonowicz, Jarosław "A Scotsman in Silesia" Warsaw Voice, 28 March 2007, retrieved on October 16, 2007.
- The history of the "Królowa Luiza" mine in Zabrze Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on October 16, 2007.
- Pounds, Norman J. G. "The Industrial Geography of Modern Poland". Economic Geography, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1960), pp. 231–253.