Parey Connecting Canal

The Pareyer Verbindungskanal is a federal waterway of waterway class III in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. It establishes a connection between the Elbe at kilometre 371.50 and the Elbe-Havel Canal at kilometre 351.19 near the towns of Parey an der Elbe and Neuderben and is 3.33 kilometres long. Shortly before the Elbe, the canal has a lock. The Brandenburg Water and Shipping Authority is responsible for the administration.
In order to shorten the waterway between the fortress city of Magdeburg and the residential cities on the Havel and Spree, the Prussian King Frederick II initiated investigations and plans for the construction of an artificial waterway between the Elbe and Havel rivers through Minister Gröne in 1740. After 1743, the construction of the Plauer Canal began. It and the Ihle Canal later became the Elbe-Havel Canal. The distance on the waterway between Magdeburg and Berlin was shortened by 150 km. The Plauer Canal flowed into the Elbe north of Parey. The section of the Plauer Canal between the Elbe and the Elbe-Havel Canal was officially given the current name PVK in 1938. To overcome the different water level heights, a first wooden lock was built near Parey. In the years 1888 to 1892, new Elbe dikes were built near Parey and a new breakthrough was created between the Elbe and the Plauer Canal. The Parey lock was converted into a two-chamber interconnected system.

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