Sujet

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: the high-level railway bridge at Levensau under construction, 1895. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: the high-level railway bridge at Levensau, while under construction, August 1894, (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. The Levensau High Bridge, built in 1894, is a high level arch bridge. It is the oldest bridge crossing the Kiel Canal. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A09_102

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

29,0Mo (2,2Mo) / 31,1cm x 23,4cm / 3669 x 2761 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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