Route
The Mittelland Canal branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine, at 52°16′37″N 7°36′18″E / 52.27694°N 7.605°E / 52.27694; 7.605), runs north along the Teutoburg Forest, past Hannover and meets with the Elbe River near Magdeburg (52°14′46″N 11°44′49″E / 52.24611°N 11.74694°E / 52.24611; 11.74694). Near Magdeburg it connects to the Elbe-Havel Canal, making a continuous shipping route to Berlin and on to Poland.
At Minden the canal crosses the river Weser over two aqueducts (the second completed in 1998), and near Magdeburg it crosses the Elbe, also with an aqueduct. Connections by side canals exist at Ibbenbüren, Osnabrück, Minden (two canals connecting to the Weser), Hanover-Linden, Hanover-Misburg, Hildesheim and Salzgitter. West of Wolfsburg, the Elbe Lateral Canal branches off, providing a connection to Hamburg, and (via the Elbe-Lübeck Canal) to the Baltic Sea.
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