View of Pretziener Wehr

Should not be missing on the Elbe Cycle Route !!
elberadweg.de/Poi/pretziener-wehr

About history:

The Elbe runs at the height of the Pretziener weir in a glacial valley six to eight kilometers wide, in which the course of the river would change constantly without human intervention, forming meanders. Before the 10th century, the Elbe ran along a ridge from Dornburg to Hohenwarthe on the eastern edge of the glacial valley. In the following centuries the Elbe shifted west towards Schönebeck and Magdeburg. An interim river course from Ranies via Grünewalde and Randaunach Salbke has been preserved as the Old Elbe. [1]
A suggestion for the construction of a circulation channel was contained in the memorandum in the so-called Elbenauer dyke regulation case from 1865, which was created with the significant participation of the Prussian civil engineer Hermann Wurffbain (1804-1889). The canal should follow the old course of the Elbe on the eastern edge of the glacial valley. The drainage through the canal should be regulated by a fixed weir at pretzias.

A really impressive building!
pretziener-wehr.de
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretziener_Wehr