Langer Trödel

You’ll love travelling down the Finow canal, as the 12 historic sluices are operated by crank handle, just as they were 400 years ago. Make sure to allow enough time to admire and enjoy.

The historic, preserved sluices on the Finow canal were built as double-breadth crossed locks between 1874 and 1878. Each sluice originally consisted of two sluice chambers. From 1928, one of the two chambers on many of the sluices was filled up or converted into a weir. The tops of all 12 historic sluices along the Finowkanal have been shifted to either the left or the right.

"Langer Trödel" section of the Travelling down the Finow canal flyer

Serious structural damage in the past necessitated fundamental repairs in keeping with monument-protection regulations. A new sluice was built in Zerpenschleuse on the site of the historic, later completely filled-in sluice.

The ‘Langer Trödel’ in Zerpenschleuse is now navigable again, after a slumber lasting nearly a century. Visitors to the sluices can enjoy modern technology, as well as historic manual operation.

Reopening of the Zerpenschleuse 

The sluice was reopened with great pomp and ceremony at the newly discovered fairground right by the sluice on 16 June 2016. This trend-setting day was officially honoured and duly celebrated in the presence of many local citizens, federal, state and regional politicians, and a number of other guests.