The Leopold Canal (german: Leopoldskanal) is a flood-relief canal in the
German
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** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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state of
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
. It has a length of and flows from a junction with the
River Elz, at
Riegel am Kaiserstuhl
Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (Latin ''Rigola'') is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies 8 km northwest of Emmendingen, and is accessed by the motorway A5 (Karlsruhe - Basel).
Education
Riegel prov ...
, to
Niederhausen
Niederhausen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdeshe ...
, where it enters the
River Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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, source2 = Rein Posteriur/Hinterrhein
, source2_location = Paradies Glacier, Graubünden, Switzerland
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.
Canals in Germany
Canals opened in 1843
CLeopold
1843 establishments in Germany
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