3-082-963 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: walls and gates of the Brunsbüttel Entrance when under construction, 1895. Illustration from a '...Supplement commemorative of the opening of the Baltic [or Kiel] Canal'. The 98-kilometer-long (61 mile) freshwater canal links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Elbe, to Holtenau, on the Kiel Fjord. It was constructed between 1887 and 1895. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.