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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
My Eye Stings!
Who on earth would be crazy enough to do this! They've got a bee on their eye!
Who on earth would be crazy enough to do this! They've got a bee on their eye!
The 918-metre Magdeburg Water Bridge or Wasserstraßenkreuz in German, completed in October 2003, is a water bridge that connects two important German shipping canals, the Elbe-Havel Canal and the Mittellandkanal, which meet near Magdeburg and lead to the country’s industrial Ruhr Valley heartland.
Engineers first conceived of joining the two waterways as far back as 1919, and by 1938 the Rothensee boat lift and bridge anchors were in place, but construction was postponed during World War II. After the Cold War split Germany, the project was put on hold indefinitely by the East German government.
With the reunification of Germany and the following establishment of
major projects in transport tracks the Water Bridge again became a
priority. Construction began in 1997,
and after six years and around half a billion euros, the gigantic water
bridge now connects Berlin’s inland harbour with the ports along the
Rhine river. The huge tub created to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.
Until the opening of the water bridge in October 2003, ships moving
between the Midland canal and the Elbe-Havel canal had to detour 12 km
through the Rothensee lock, the Elbe and the Niegripp lock.
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