It provides a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) route through the centre of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel.
It then passes through the city centre, before descending through the Stadtschleuse Brandenburg lock into a lower level of the River Havel, here known as the Brandenburger Niederhavel.
[1][2] The Brandenburg City Canal is now largely used by leisure traffic, due to its constrained size.
Commercial shipping uses the Silo Canal, which descends through the Vorstadtschleuse Brandenburg, crosses the Brandenburger Niederhavel upstream of the city centre and then skirts the northern edge of the city, before rejoining the River Havel in the Plauer See.
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