Göta channel

See also: Göta

The Canal Göta ( Göta kanal in Swedish) is a channel Swedish builds at the beginning of the 19th century. The channel crosses the south of the country, Gothenburg on the Western coast, by borrowing the river Göta älv and the Canal of Trollhättan, then through the big lakes Vänern and Vättern, parrallèlement with the Motala ström, until Söderköping on the the Baltic.

The channel is long of 190,5 km, among which 87,3 km had to be dug. With the Channel of Trollhättan, it allows a crossing of 390 km through Sweden.

The architect of the project was Baltzar von Platen, which worked on levels developed before on the initiative of the king of Sweden by the Engineer and British Architecte Thomas Telford. It receipt the permission to begin the April 11th 1810. The industrialist Christopher Polhem took part in the design of the mechanism of the lock S. the channel was officially open the September 26th 1832. Telford traversed itself Sweden to study some of work of digging which had to be carried out for the project. Built only a few tens of years before the advent of the Railroad, the channel quickly was exceeded, and ever adapted. The channel is from now on a tourist attraction, sometimes called the blue Ruban of Sweden .

To help with the construction of the channel, a small workshop of mechanics was created with Motala, and was called Motala Verkstad. The place is known to have been the cradle of the Swedish mechanical engineering industry .

Halts

The halts envisaged during a complete course are: Gothenburg, Göta älv, Lilla Edet, Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Vänern, Läckö, Årnäs, Mariestad, Tiveden, Sjötorp, Lyrestad, Norrkvarn, Töreboda, Wassbacken, Lanthöjden, Tåtorp, Viken, Unden, Forsvik, Rödesund, Karlsborg, Vättern, Vadstena, Motala, Borenshult, Boren, Borensberg or Husbyfjöl, Långkanalen, Bergs slussar, Roxen, Norsholm, Asplången, Klämman, Söderköping, Mem, Slätbaken, the Baltic, Channel of Södertälje, Lake Mälar, Hammarbyleden, Hammarbyslussen and Skeppsbron.

See too

Internal bonds

List of the Swedish companies

External bonds

www.gotakanal.se, official site of the part of Vänern in the Baltic

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