Ludwig Canal - Ludwigskanal

Map of Ludwig Canal

The Ludwig Canal (also known as Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal) is a historical canal connection between the Main at Bamberg and the Danube in Kelheim. He overcame the European main watershed with 100 locks Upper Palatinate Jura. The canal is a listed building as a route monument.

background

The canal was built between 1836 and 1846, but soon lost its economic importance due to the emerging railway construction. It was finally abandoned in 1950 and later completed by the 1992 one Main-Danube Canal replaced. The traffic on the Ludwig Canal was mainly carried out by tow barges; the ships were pulled by horses from the towpath on the side (as was largely the case with the French canals) Nuremberg and Beilngries is the over Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate guided canal route largely preserved (the route of the Main-Danube Canal runs much further south here), while the section between Bamberg and Nuremberg from Frankenschnellweg and the new canal built over and the section in Altmuehltal are largely destroyed by the new canal (there are individual locks in the Altmühltal, such as locks 10 and 11 at Riedenburg and locks 12 and 14 at Dietfurt an der Altmühl, preserved as insulated structures). To the north of Nuremberg, only lock 100 in Bamberg is functional, lock 94 in Eggolsheim has fallen dry, but is reasonably well preserved. In some places the canal is still used for excursion boats. Most of the lock gates have been dismantled, and some trough bridges have been preserved Schwarzach bridge canal at Schwarzenbruck and the Gösselthal bridge canal at Beilngries.

Tourist use

Cycle path on the canal near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate

Some of the towpaths have been converted into cycle paths, for example part of the Five rivers cycle route. The towing ship Elfriede provides tourist traffic on the apex posture, the ship Alma-Viktoria at locks 24 and 25 near Mühlhausen. A six-kilometer hiking trail is signposted near Schwarzenbruck. The channel is also used by anglers.

The Alcmona adventure village near Dietfurt offers paddling tours on a replica dugout canoe, which is located at lock 14.[1]

In addition to the Schwarzenbrucker Brück Canal, there are also the areas around the old one Kelheim harbor with the lock 1 and around the Bamberg Lock 100 worth seeing.

Museums

  • 1  Bavarian Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal Museum, Burgstrasse 1, 90559 Burgthann. Tel.: 49 9187 41805. in the south wing of Burgthann Castle.Open: April to October every 1st and 3rd Sunday; November to March every 1st Sunday of the month; 1.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Price: Free admission, guided tours adults € 3, up to 12 years € 1.50, but at least € 30 per tour.last change: Jun. 2019
  • Alcmona adventure village, in Dietfurt.

art

  • Sculpture groups art on the canal in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate.

course

  • 2 Lock 1 in Kelheim

  • Canal harbor in Kelheim

  • Gösselthal bridge canal

  • Lock 25 near Mühlhausen

  • 3 Gösselthal bridge canal at Beilngries (the trough no longer carries water).
  • 4 Lock 25 near Mühlhausen, functional lock (others: locks 24 and 26)
  • 1  Alma Viktoria. Alma Viktoria in the Wikipedia encyclopediaAlma Viktoria in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsAlma Viktoria (Q14537045) in the Wikidata database.a restored towing ship that operates the ship for tourist purposes.
  • 1  Lock 35, Lock 35, 90559 Burgthann. Tel.: 49 9183 901466.Lock 35 on Facebook.Self-service beer garden right on the canal, just a few steps from the train station.Open: daily 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.last change: Jun. 2019
  • 2  Gasthaus zum Ludwigskanal, Dammweg 8, 90559 Burgthann. Tel.: 49 9183 250. Inn with beer garden and towboat.Open: January to March Mon 10:00 - 15:00, Wed from 15:00, Thu - Sun from 10:00; April to December Wed from 3 p.m., Thu - Mon from 10 a.m.last change: Jun. 2019
  • 2  Tow ship Elfriede. Tow ship Elfriede in the encyclopedia WikipediaTowing ship Elfriede in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsTowing ship Elfriede (Q14906608) in the Wikidata database.Special trips from the municipality of Burgthann at 49 9183 401-16.Open: tow rides on several Sundays in summer.Price: Adults € 4, 7 to 12 years € 1.last change: Jun. 2019
  • 5 Lock 46 near Schwarzenbruck

  • Lock 35

  • Tow ship Elfriede

  • Lock 46 near Schwarzenbruck

  • 6 Bridge canal over the Schwarzach The barges used to cross the Schwarzach River via the Brück Canal. The structure is 17.50 meters high, has a 14.60 meter span and is 90 meters long.

  • Schwarzach bridge canal

  • Schwarzach Bridge Canal (side view)

  • Waldschänke Brück Canal

  • 3  Waldschänke Brück Canal, Am Brückkanal 3, 90537 Feucht. Inn with Franconian cuisine and a huge beer garden right on the old canal bridge.Open: daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed on Mondays.last change: Jun. 2019
  • 7  Lock 60. From the Feucht Ost motorway service station on the A9 within walking distance.
  • 8 Lock 70 in Nuremberg
  • 4  White Häusla, Marthweg 202, 90455 Nuremberg. Tel.: 49 911 4805842. Snack directly at lock 71.Open: Wed to Sun 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.last change: Aug. 2020
  • 9 Canal monument in gain
  • 10 Lock 100 in Bamberg

  • Lock 70 in Nuremberg

  • Canal monument in Erlangen

  • Lock 100 in Bamberg

literature

  • Lothar Schnabel, Walter E. Keller: Cycling and hiking along the Ludwig Canal and the Main-Danube Canal; Between Bamberg and Kelheim. In:Series of yellow paperback guides. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: Wek, 2009, ISBN 978-3-934145-60-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑www.alcmona.de/userdata/dokumente/2010
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