Bydgoszcz Canal

Bydgoszcz Canal is a canal, 24.7 km long, among the cities of Bydgoszcz and Naklo in Poland, connecting Vistula river with Oder river, via Brda and Notec rivers. The stage distinction alongside the canal is regulated via 6 locks. The canal was constructed in 1772-1775, at the order of Frederick II, king of Prussia. In the 1750s, canal schemes were very popular: first realizations had been already completed in France, England or Germany, whilst in Poland, Prince Michal Kazimierz Oginski supported the construction of the Oginski Canal, and the Dnieper–Bug Canal became completed on the cease of the 18^th century.

Nearby Bydgoszcz, works started out east of Rynarzewo, run by way of Mr Malachowski, landlord in Labiszyn: in the 1770s, trenches were excavated and usable as a portion of a navigable canal in the region. Main aims to be completed have been facilitating Polish goods exports to Western Europe, as well as business exploitation of wooded area aid, at the same time as weakening the quasi-monopoly of the then-Prussian city of Gdansk. Politically, the competition to this concept was the fact that this type of canal could in truth growth the electricity of the Kingdom of Prussia.