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Lüneburg Heath

Crossing Mittelland Canal

Lüneburg Heath

Crossing Mittelland Canal

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Crossing Mittelland Canal

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Hiking

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Cycling

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Gravel riding

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Location: Rühen, Gifhorn, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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May 11, 2018

Road cycling

With the Mittelland Canal you cross the longest artificial waterway in Germany. It connects the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the Elbe and the Elbe-Havel Canal. Even at the time of the GDR, work was being carried out on both sides of the border on this canal. After reunification, the expansion was pursued as part of the "Transport Project German Unity No. 17".

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Hiking

Mittelland Canal Bridge Oebisfelder Straße B244

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Without the canal, Wolfsburg would probably not exist in its current form. When the city and the Volkswagen factory were planned in the late 1930s, the connection to the Mittelland Canal was crucial for transporting coal for its own power plant and for the removal of manufactured vehicles.

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Elevation 60 m

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Location: Rühen, Gifhorn, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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