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Torf-Kahn Lock

Torf-Kahn Lock

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Torf-Kahn Lock

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Location: Genthin, Jerichower Land, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. View of the Elbe-Havel Canal – Beach at Lake Wusterwitz loop from Genthin

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2. Fieldstone Church Kade – Elbe-Havel Canal loop from Genthin

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3. Strand am Wusterwitzer See – View of Plauer See loop from Genthin

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radlerjuergen

November 4, 2020

The Sandforth lock near Mützel is a barge lock for the transport of peat and was built in 1745 to reach a navigable water depth in the upper part of the 7.5 kilometer long peat canal, also called Mühlengraben, from Fiener Bruch, from the peat factory near Fienerode to the Plauer Canal. The lock is older than the village of Mützel, which was only founded in 1754 according to official sources. In the formerly drained wetland Fiener Bruch, peat was extracted. This was brought over the trenches and small canals with hand barges to the peat deposit in Genthin on the Plauer Canal. At the Plauer Canal, the peat was loaded onto larger barges and brought to the salt works in Schönebeck (Elbe). Over 70 hydraulic structures have been built in Fiener Bruch for peat shipping. Of these, 13 were peat barge locks, of which only the Sandforth lock was preserved as a technical monument. The Sandforth lock was a single-gate stowage or catch lock.

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Location: Genthin, Jerichower Land, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. View of the Elbe-Havel Canal – Beach at Lake Wusterwitz loop from Genthin

2. Fieldstone Church Kade – Elbe-Havel Canal loop from Genthin

3. Strand am Wusterwitzer See – View of Plauer See loop from Genthin

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