Water Bridge in Germany

Urban Legends and Folklore ^ | Last updated: 10/10/05 | David Emery

[george76]

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project.

Completed in December 2003, the bridge is 918 meters long and has been modestly described as "a giant, kilometer-long concrete bathtub."

[george76]

[GSlob]

Couldn't they find a better beer to advertise on that ship than Warsteiner?

[umgud]

Wonder why the boats have nearly no passengers?

[ExGeeEye]

Was it cheaper or otherwise more desirable than digging a canal?

Or would that have messed up the proper current of the Elbe and caused problems downstream?

[Theresawithanh]

Wow, that looks pretty neat, a water bridge over water!

[SIDENET]

Weird!

[Oblongata]

Wait...water...bridge...under water? water under...over...water bridge over water? My meager brain can't handle the concept and is about to explode.

[snippy_about_it]

Cool.

[solitas]

the word "aqueduct" comes to mind. (and also here)

[1rudeboy]

Those crazy Germans.

[Riley]

We've done the same thing. Back when the Revolution was still within living memory, the Chesapake and Ohio Canal was built to carry water traffic from the Potomac River to (I think) the Ohio Valley. Much of it remains today- including a small stretch in Georgetown where you can still ride the towboats.

Incidentally, the Watergate Hotel of Nixonian fame, was named for the canal's 'water gate', where the canal met the Potomac River. You can still see the original water gate today.

http://mcmullans.org/canal/aqueduct.htm

[Incorrigible]

There's an aqueduct for boats over the Millstone River in Princeton, NJ.  It's for the Delaware & Raritan Canal through central NJ.

It was built in the 1800's.

[FreedomCalls]

It reminds me of someplace else. Do the people on the side sing "It's a small world after all" as you go floating past?

[FreedomCalls]

Just as I thought. I zoomed in on the people on the side.

[Lazamataz]

LOL! You are a nut. I like that in a Freeper.

[Rebelbase]

Great, now I have to go beat my head against the door to rid it of that song......

[supercat]

Was it cheaper or otherwise more desirable than digging a canal?

Well, it would only seem to make sense if it's connecting canals on either side of the river. Even then, I wonder whether the traffic, outside of opening-day festivities, will justify the cost as compared with other alternatives (e.g. building locks to connect the canal to the river).