Leipzig has been dreaming of the big sea for a long time. This sounds almost unbelievable, since the city is inland and several hundred kilometers from the coast. 
But Leipzigs dream can be seen in various places in the city.
I will show you some special passages and will be happy to give you historical information about them. You will be amazed and spend some unforgettable moments by the water in Leipzig.



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Leipzig - longing for the sea

Some more expressions of "Cafe Puschkin" and of course my "Bauernfrühstück" and "Kellerbier": Delicious😀!!

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Walk along the Karl Heine Canal ♥ Leipzig Region

https://www.leipzigfreetours.com/en/boat-tour-karl-heine-canal/

Now only 75 meters (!) are still missing to connect the Carl Heine Canal to Saale-Leipzig-Canal.

The Saale-Leipzig-Canal project begun in 1933 and discontinued in 1943, which was to connect the White Elster in Leipzig with the Saale near Leuna and thus connect Leipzig via the Saale and Elbe to the North German waterway network and via Hamburg to the North Sea. The canal was planned for ships up to 1000 tons. 

King Friedrich August I of Saxony (1763–1827) had already initiated the planning of a water connection between Leipzig and the Saale and Unstrut rivers. However, the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1815 stopped these plans, and the project was not pursued.

The Saale-Leipzig Canal was to have been connected to the Carl Heine Canal via Lindenau Harbour, which would have established the connection through Leipzig city centre to the White Elster. 

Almost at the same time, in May 1938, the dredging of the harbour basin and the construction of the first storage buildings began. The Lindenau port was planned as an industrial and transshipment port with two industrial and transshipment port basins each.

Since autumn 1997, Lindenau Harbour and the associated facilities and buildings have been listed as historical monuments.

A start of construction for the approximately 100-meter-long missing connection of the Lindenau harbor with the Saale-Leipzig Canal is not foreseeable. Lyoner Straße is needed as an alternative route during the construction of the new railway bridges in Georg-Schwarz-Straße. The connection can only be established when a barrage for high and low water falls has been built in the Karl Heine Canal south of the Luisenbrücke.

Of the planned 19 kilometres, 11 kilometres were completed and filled with water in 1939, and a further 5.5 km were already partially excavated. The canal, which was supposed to flow into the Saale near Kreypau, ends near Günthersdorf (Saxony-Anhalt), approximately 10 km are missing here to the river Saale.

Just take the S-Train to Markkleeberg and walk some meters:

The Carl Heine Canal was a predecessor project and built from 1856 on the initiative of the Leipzig lawyer and industrial pioneer Carl Heine as the first part of a planned shipping canal from the White Elster in Leipzig to the Saale. The construction of the canal began in Plagwitz on the White Elster. On 25 June 1864, the first section of the canal was inaugurated, and in 1887 the Zeitz railway in Lindenau was reached. Between 1890 and 1898, the last section was built for the time being, which ends shortly before the Lindenau harbour.

It was not until 29 January 2015 that the 665-meter-long connection of the Karl Heine Canal to the Lindenau harbour began. The process was completed three weeks later as planned.

Leipzig - longing for the sea

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