Danube–Oder Canal

The Danube–Oder Canal (German: Donau-Oder-Kanal; Polish: Kanał Odra-Dunaj; Czech: Kanál Odra-Dunaj) is a planned and partially constructed artificial waterway in the Lobau floodplain of the Danube at Vienna, that was supposed to stretch along the Morava River to the Oder at the city of Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Poland.

[1] The Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV had envisioned a waterway capable of taking ships from the Oder to the Danube in the 14th century.

The project would connect the Oder to the Danube through the Moravian region of the Czech Republic, stretching 320 kilometres and spanning an elevation of 124 meters.

The branch-off at the Danube, just under 100 metres long, is still clearly recognizable today, connecting the Ölhafen Lobau of the OMV oil company.

The short, finished arm east of Kędzierzyn-Koźle is known as Kanal Kędzierzynski and serves to connect the nitrogen factory Azoty Kędzierzyn AG to the Oder.