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    • 48°59′02″N 10°55′18″E / 48.9840°N 10.9216°E The Fossa Carolina (or Karlsgraben in German) was a canal named after Charlemagne in what is today the German state of Bavaria, intended to connect the Swabian Rezat river to the Altmühl river (the Rhine basin to the Danube basin). It was created during the early Middle Ages, long before the Ludwig Canal … See more

    Geography

    Near Treuchtlingen and Weißenburg in Bayern the European Watershed between the rivers of the Rhine basin and those of … See more

    History

    Carolingian sources report that Frankish king Charlemagne gave orders to dig a 2 kilometers long canal from Treuchtlingen to Weißenburg in Bayern in 793. According to Einhard, writing around two decades later, Charlemag… See more

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    Research

    Research by Robert Koch in 1992/3 showed that the floor of the canal was not level, but followed a step-like profile, rising from the direction of the Altmühl towards the north. Koch argued that the canal could have been … See more

    Remains

    Only a 500 m (1,600 ft) stretch of the canal in the municipality of Treuchtlingen in the Ortsteil known as Graben remains a water-filled waterway. Heaps of excavated earth that delineate the canal's banks stretch further, tota… See more

    External links

    • Fossa Carolina (English)
    • Ingolstadt und die Fossa Carolina Karls des Großen (German) See more

    Further reading

    • Berg-Hobohm, Stefanie, Kopecky-Herrmanns, Britta, Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen in der Umgebung des Karlsgrabens (Fossa Carolina), In: Berichte der Bayerischen Bodendenkmalpflege, No. 52, 2012, p… See more

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