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The Eider (German: Eider; Danish: Ejderen; Latin: Egdor or Eidora [1]) is the longest river in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Baltic Sea , but flows to the west, ending in the North Sea .
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The Eider Canal soon carried a considerable volume of shipping, and as decades passed the growing number and size of the ships wanting to make the crossing strained the canal's capacity. The winding course of the Eider and the need to navigate through the Frisian Islands at the canal's west end added to the travel time, and the drafts of late ...
It was called the Eider Canal and used stretches of the Eider River for the link between the two seas. Completed during the reign of Christian VII of Denmark in 1784, the Eiderkanal was a 43 km (27 mi) part of a 175 km (109 mi) waterway from Kiel to the Eider River's mouth at Tönning on the west coast.
Eider Barrage, landward side, open Eider Barrage, seaward side, closed Bridge and lock opened Eider barrage river side from the north, with control tower and street crossing lock and river. The Eider Barrage (German: Eidersperrwerk) is located at the mouth of the river Eider near Tönning on Germany's North Sea coast.
The Sorge is a right affluent of river Eider in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. According to the actual naming, it has a length of 29.4 kilometres (18.3 mi). It is formed by the confluence of two streams or small rivers. The shorter one is called Stente. It is the outlet of a lake called Bistensee. Half way it passes the mill's pond of the hamlet ...
Friedrichstadt (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˌʃtat] ⓘ; Low German: Frieestadt; Danish: Frederiksstad; North Frisian: Fräärstää; Dutch: Frederikstad aan de Eider) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the river Eider approx. 12 km (7 miles) south of Husum.
Rendsburg (Danish: Rendsborg, also Rensborg, Low German: Rendsborg, also Rensborg) is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476.