Rhine - Main - Upper Danube Waterways / 3-Pack
This package presents the Rhine-Main-Danube waterways between Amsterdam - Budapest and provide useful and interesting information.
Main River
The Main River is 527 km / 327 miles, and is the longest river that flows entirely in Germany. The River starts near Kulmbach where the two streams, the Red Main (Roter Main) and the White Main (Weißer Main) join together. Navigation for the river ships on the Main is 384 km/ 238 miles, starting with the 0 km marker at the confluence of the Rhine River until the river reaches the city of Bamberg (km marker 384.) The Main is shaped like a “W” and is considered to be a kind of ‘equator,’ dividing Northern Germany from Southern Germany.
Main - Danube Canal
Since the year 793, under King Charlemagne, there has been a desire to link the Rhine River (via its tributary, the Main) to the Danube River so as to form an international waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea. King Ludwig I succeeded connecting the two great waterways in 1846 with a series of 101 locks. In 1921, the Bavarian and German Governments agreed to expand the Main-Danube canal for navigational purposes. By using modern technology, it was possible to build the canal using only 16 locks.
In order to succeed in building this canal, the engineers of the Main-Danube canal had to overcome one big obstacle, the European watershed which separates the basins of the Rhine and Danube Rivers. The Main-Danube Canal was officially opened in 1992, and the length of the Main Danube canal is 172 kilometers / 106 miles.
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- Map Size: open: 16.5" x 23.4" (420 mm x 594 mm) folded: 4.1" x 5.8" (105 x 148 mm)