Büchen ( German pronunciation: [byːçn̩] , audio ) is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg , in Schleswig-Holstein , Germany . It is seat of the Amt ("collective municipality") Büchen .
6-708: Büchen is situated on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal , approx. 13 km northeast of Lauenburg/Elbe , and 45 km east of Hamburg . Büchen station is on the Berlin-Hamburg and the Lübeck–Lüneburg lines . Between 1945 and 1990 Büchen served as West German inner German border crossing for rail transport . The crossing was open for trains travelling between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany (till 1949, thereafter
12-582: A length of 64 kilometres (40 mi) between the cities of Lübeck in the north and Lauenburg in the south by way of the Mölln lakes. The modern canal was built in the 1890s to replace the Stecknitz Canal , a medieval watercourse linking the same two rivers. The older Stecknitz Canal had first connected Lauenburg and Lübeck on the Old Salt Route by linking the tiny rivers Stecknitz (a tributary of
18-608: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Elbe-L%C3%BCbeck Canal The Elbe–Lübeck Canal ( German pronunciation ) (also known as the Elbe–Trave Canal ) is an artificial waterway in eastern Schleswig-Holstein , Germany . It connects the rivers Elbe and Trave , creating an inland water route across the drainage divide from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea . The canal includes seven locks and runs for
24-675: The Trave ) and Delvenau (a tributary of the Elbe ). Built between 1391 and 1398, the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe. After German unification in the late nineteenth century, there was a burst of canal-building within the new German Empire . The Stecknitz Canal had been in service for centuries, but newer vessels demanded deeper and wider canals, and modern engineering offered
30-718: The East German Democratic Republic , or West Berlin ) and the British zone of occupation and thereafter Federal Republic of Germany . The traffic was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations between West Germany and West Berlin which followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement (1972) . Büchen lies on the Berlin-Hamburg railway . This article about a location in Herzogtum Lauenburg
36-506: The possibility of rebuilding and enlarging the venerable waterway. In 1893 the German government closed the Stecknitz Canal to barge traffic, and in 1895 construction began on a widened and straightened waterway which includes some of the old canal's watercourse. The new Elbe–Lübeck Canal was inaugurated by German Emperor Wilhelm II and opened to shipping traffic in 1900. Today it continues to carry substantial freight traffic, as well as offering
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