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    The DortmundEms Canal is a 269-kilometre (167 mi) long canal in Germany between the inland port of the city of Dortmund (51°31′30″N 7°26′40″E / 51.52500°N...
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    crossroads of four canals (Datteln-Hamm Canal, Wesel-Datteln Canal, Dortmund-Ems Canal and Rhein-Herne Canal), which makes it the biggest canal junction in the...
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    length, the Mittelland Canal is the longest artificial waterway in Germany. The Mittelland Canal branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine...
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    Küsten Canal, also known as the Coastal Canal (German: Küstenkanal), is a canal, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) long, that links the DortmundEms Canal with...
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    6°46′1″E / 51.44972°N 6.76694°E / 51.44972; 6.76694) with the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Henrichenburg (51°37′1″N 7°19′19″E / 51.61694°N 7.32194°E...
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    two attacks on the Dortmund-Ems Canal by 617 Squadron carried out on 14-16 September 1943. The operation was unsuccessful. The canal was not significantly...
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    Datteln-Hamm Canal (German: Datteln-Hamm-Kanal) is a canal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It links the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Datteln to...
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  • This is a list of navigable canals that are at least partially located in Germany. The canals are listed here in alphabetic order of the name (without...
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    scientific institutes. Dortmund Port, which terminates the Dortmund-Ems Canal connecting Dortmund to the North Sea, is the biggest European canal port with 10 docks...
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    (51°38′21″N 6°36′25″E / 51.63917°N 6.60694°E / 51.63917; 6.60694) to the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Datteln (51°39′45″N 7°21′58″E / 51.66250°N 7.36611°E / 51...
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    the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Dortmund-Ems Canal, approx. 25 km south-west of Münster. The town of Lüdinghausen includes...
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    Construction on Dortmund's port which terminates the Dortmund-Ems Canal connecting Dortmund to the North Sea started in 1895. It was opened 1899 by Kaiser...
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    1899 DortmundEms Canal and Dortmund Port open. City Hall restored. Dortmunder Volksbank [de] founded. 1900 Regional Handwerkskammer Dortmund [de] (Chamber...
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    15 km south-west of the city of Münster. The river Stever and the Dortmund-Ems Canal are partially situated in the municipality of Senden. City: Münster...
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    The canal at this point was too wide and the island was required to narrow the canal enough for gates to be installed when required. The DortmundEms Canal...
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    Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the DortmundEms Canal (DEK). The name stems from the word Mappe, meaning...
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    Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Dortmund-Ems Canal, approximately 25 km south-west of Osnabrück and 20 km north-east...
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  • river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It discharges into the DortmundEms Canal near Senden. List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia Hydrographic...
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    killed later the same year while taking part in Operation Garlic – the DortmundEms Canal raid. After his Lancaster's engines were damaged by clipping a tree...
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    It is situated near the junction of the Mittellandkanal and the Dortmund-Ems Canal, approx. 10 km east of Rheine. Parts of Hörstel are Riesenbeck, Dreierwalde...
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  • Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle (category Canals in Germany)
    the WWK comprises the Rhine-Herne Canal, the Wesel-Datteln Canal, the Datteln-Hamm Canal and the Dortmund-Ems Canal. The main tasks are operation and...
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    passes near Greven, furthermore 2 bundesstrassen, B481 and B219. The Dortmund-Ems Canal crosses through Greven and was lately enlarged to carry ships up to...
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    Henrichenburg boat lift (category Canal museums)
    cyclists along the canals of the northern Ruhr Area. The old boat lift was opened in 1899. It was an important structure on the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal without...
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    Squadron as he was killed during Operation Garlic, a failed raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. Four of Gibson's crew from Operation Chastise (Deering, Hutchison...
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    Große Aa (category Tributaries of the Ems)
    parallel to the DortmundEms Canal and discharges into the Ems 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Lingen, a few metres north of the mouth of the canal after the Gleesen...
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  • place for which he was awarded the VC. On 2 April 1945, near the Dortmund-Ems canal, Germany, Corporal Chapman's section came under heavy machine-gun...
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    two-sided marshalling yard (approximately in the area between the DortmundEms Canal and Kaldenhofer Weg), which would be connected via the bypass to all...
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    (unit 1–3) on left side and 57 ha (unit 4) on the right side of the DortmundEms Canal, which is used to deliver hard coal by barges. Closed conveyor belts...
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  • Germany (Deutschland) Dortmund-Eemskanaal DortmundEms Canal (Dortmund-Ems-Kanal) Duitse Bocht German Bight (Deutsche Bucht) Eems Ems Emmelkamp Emlichheim...
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    are still in use; a pair of twinned locks was opened in 2014 on the DortmundEms Canal near Münster, Germany. The once-famous staircase at Lockport, New...
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