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Brunsbüttel Locks – Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) loop from Gokels

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Rendsburg-Eckernförde

Gokels

Brunsbüttel Locks – Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) loop from Gokels

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Brunsbüttel Locks – Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) loop from Gokels

06:26

113km

170m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The route includes a crossing by ferry. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 14, 2026

This route includes a ferry crossing

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 56.4 km for 60 m

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Start point

Train Station

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10.1 km

Gieselau Canal Lock and Bascule Bridge

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Lock from the Eider region to the Kiel Canal.

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26.2 km

Grunental High Bridge and view of the Kiel Canal

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Hello. In any case, it is always worth a tour. But you should start in Brunsbüttel, because you usually have tailwind, I did it from Holtenau with headwind because I didn't know better. 😂

The most exciting are the ships 🚢 on the canal, simply wonderful to look at.

For an overnight tour I can recommend the Heuherberge in Beldorf and the Ferienhof Sievers in Hanerau-Hademarschen! Very good value for money. 👍

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32.7 km

View of the Schafstedt High Bridge over the Kiel Canal

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Driving here on the canal near Schafstedt is a really beautiful, impressive route on the NOK. Then to have a view of the high bridge in the nicest weather, to be amazed to admire the construction, is a real experience.

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43.4 km

Nord-Ostsee-Kanal Cycle Path

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Great bike path on the Kiel Canal

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56.4 km

Brunsbüttel Lock, Kiel Canal

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The NOK lock is the nicer of the two (to Kiel Holtenau). You get closer to the locks and you also have an impressive view of the large Elbe estuary behind with the even larger ships!

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61.4 km

High bridge Brunsbüttel

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The traffic of the four-lane federal highway 5 runs over the 2,830.8 meter long steel truss bridge in Brunsbüttel.

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74.5 km

View of the Hochdonn Railway Bridge

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When the summer weather is nice, a tour here is worth it.

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81.5 km

Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal)

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The North Baltic Sea Canal (NOK; international name Kiel Canal, in Germany until 1948 Kaiser Wilhelm Canal) connects the North Sea (Elbe estuary) with the Baltic Sea (Kiel Fjord). The foundation stone was laid in 1887 and the small double lock at Brunsbüttel and Holtenau was opened in 1895. The large double locks in Brunsbüttel and Holtenau were opened in 1914. The Kiel Canal is a federal waterway and the busiest artificial sea shipping route in the world. Almost 30,000 (2021: 27,293, 2020: 25,247, 2019: 28,797, 2018: 30,009) ships pass through the canal every year.
Over its length of 98 kilometers, it crosses the state of Schleswig-Holstein between Brunsbüttel and Kiel-Holtenau. This saves him the journey around the Cimbrian Peninsula (Jutland) through the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat. With the canal, the route is on average 250 nautical miles (around 460 km) shorter, depending on the port of departure and destination.

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113 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

66.1 km

32.4 km

7.15 km

6.97 km

155 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

75.1 km

33.2 km

1.92 km

1.21 km

1.19 km

171 m

Elevation

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Sunday 12 July

28°C

11°C

43 %

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Brunsbüttel Locks – Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) loop from Gokels

Gieselau Canal Lock and Bascule Bridge

Grunental High Bridge and view of the Kiel Canal

View of the Schafstedt High Bridge over the Kiel Canal

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