Gliwice Canal

The Gliwice Canal is a canal connecting the Oder River to the town of Gliwice within the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Also referred to as the Upper Silesian Canal, it became built from 1935 to 1939 and replaced the Klondike Canal. The Gliwice Canal became in the beginning constructed within the Province of Upper Silesia inside Germany. Because the Klodnitz Canal had emerge as obsolete, it changed into determined in 1934 that creation of a new canal was greater possible than modernization of the older Klodnitz Canal, which closed in 1937. The new canal, called the Gleiwitz Canal become constructed from 1935 to 1939 and opened for service in 1941.

On 8 December 1939, it become renamed the Adolf Hitler Canal in honor of Adolf Hitler, in the course of the inauguration ceremony with the aid of Rudolf Hess. There had been additionally plans to make it part of the Danube Oder Canal task. After World War II, the canal and the encompassing territories had been located beneath Polish management according to the 1945 Potsdam Conference. About 50 human beings are employed in retaining the canal. About 700,000 tonnes of material are shipped every year through the canal. The Polish government is considering modernizing the canal.