page_title: Kiel Canal
section_title: Crossings
hierarchical_section_title: Kiel Canal / Crossings
caption_attribution_description: English: Rendsburg in Germany. The bridge over the Kiel Canal is a listed building. Deutsch: Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein. Die Eisenbahnbrücke über den Nord-Ostsee-Kanal ist denkmalgeschützt. Unter der Brücke befindet sich eine Hängefähre für Autos und Fußgänger.
context_page_description: The Kiel Canal is a 98-kilometre-long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 250 nautical miles is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland Peninsula. This not only saves time but also avoids storm-prone seas and having to pass through the Danish straits.
  Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River Eider by the short Gieselau Canal.
context_section_description: Several railway lines and federal roads (Autobahnen and Bundesstraßen) cross the canal on eleven fixed links. The bridges have a clearance of  42 metres (138 ft) allowing for ship heights up to 40 metres (130 ft). The oldest bridge still in use is the Levensau High Bridge from 1893; however, the bridge will be replaced in the course of a canal expansion already underway. In sequence and in the direction of the official kilometre count from west (Brunsbüttel) to east (Holtenau) these crossings are:
  Brunsbüttel High Bridge, four lane crossing of Bundesstraße 5
  Hochdonn High Bridge of the Marsh Railway
  Hohenhörn High Bridge for Autobahn 23
  Grünental High Bridge for railway line Neumünster-Heide and  Bundesstraße 204
  Rendsburg High Bridge for the Neumünster–Flensburg railway, from which a transporter bridge, used by local traffic, is suspended
  Kanaltunnel Rendsburg, road tunnel for Bundesstraße 77 (four lanes)
  Rendsburg pedestrian tunnel 
  Rade High Bridge for Autobahn A7
  Levensau High Bridge from 1893 for the Kiel–Flensburg railway and a local road
  New Levensau High Bridge for Bundesstraße 76 (four lanes)
  Holtenau High Bridges, two parallel bridges with three car lanes each as well as pavements for pedestrians and cyclists
  Local traffic is also served by 14 ferry lines. Most noteworthy is the “hanging ferry” (German: Schwebefähre) beneath the Rendsburg High Bridge which needs to be replaced after a collision with a ship in 2016. All ferries are run by the Canal Authority and their use is free of charge.
caption: The Rendsburg High Bridge
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