Dalsland Canal in Sweden The most beautiful waterways in Europe!
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- The Dalsland canal consists of a string of large and small lakes, coves, fjords and bi-links that are bound together by about 12 km of dug / exploded canal. The total length of the lake system is about 250 km and extends from the western side of Lake Vänern, passing up through the Dalsland landscape, further into the Värmland landscape, up to the Norwegian border and into Norway. In the lake system there are 31 locks distributed at 17 lock stations. The fall height is a total of 66 meters. The canal is considered one of the most beautiful waterways in Europe!
The idea of connecting the inner of Dalsland and southern Värmland with Lake Vänern and the West Coast through a canal was born during the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, these plans took a stronger form and after a long decision-making process, work on the canal began in 1865.
The renowned railway builder Nils Ericson was appointed as responsible for the construction work. The work progressed faster than expected and already in 1866 the canal was completed. The canal was inaugurated on September 19, the emergency year 1868.
The finished canal became a communication route where several lakes were connected by short dug or broken canal paths provided with locks.
From Lake Vänern it was now possible to continue at Köpmannebro into the country, past Dals Långed and Bengtsfors to Gustavsfors and further up Värmland to Årjäng or via Lennartsfors to Töcksfors or Dals Ed.
The purpose of the canal was to serve as a transport route for the many iron mills in Dalsland and southwest Värmland. However, the canal did not come to play a crucial role in this business. Due to market changes, ia. Due to increased competition from England, most of the ironworks were closed down in the late 1800s.
However, it gained significance and sometimes became directly decisive for the location of the compensation industry, especially the wood and sawmill industry, which took over after the iron mills. In addition to being a transport route of goods, the canal also gained importance for mail transport up to the beginning of the 20th century. Housing segregation also experienced a boost after the channel's inception.
The heyday of the canal fell from 1868 to about 1895, after which the freight of goods decreased dramatically. The reason for this was increased competition through the expansion of the rail and road networks.
Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination ...
The undiscovered, exciting and fresh holiday destinations become, as you may notice, fewer and fewer. It is especially difficult to find those that interest the whole family.
One of these rare strawberry spots is located in Dalsland-Nordmarken - Sweden's sunniest area. There, one of Europe's most beautiful waterways - the Dalsland Canal - ties together a maze of large and small lakes, rivers and idyllic, meandering canal stumps to a boat and canoe sport area whose counterpart you can look for a long time. Only a mile is the dug or blasted canal. The rest is a 24-mile sailable lake system. Welcome!
Dimensions, depth and speed - and more
The Dalsland Canal lake system stretches from Köpmannebro, on Lake Vänern, to its northernmost point at Östervallskog. To the west, we cross the Norwegian border into the old transshipment station, Ottied.
Following the Trollhätte Canal, you can easily navigate to the southernmost tip of Lake Vänern before continuing towards Köpmannebro and the Dalsland Canal lake system.
And if you want to go around, you can continue to Nössemark, on Lake Stora Le, from where you can transport your boat by trailer over to Halden and Västerhavet. Many choose to take this classic route, which we call the “Tour of Western Sweden”.
Max length of vessel: 22.75 m
Max width: 4.05 m
Max depth: 1.8 m
Vertical clearance:
Vänern - Lennartsfors 17 m
Lennartsfors-Töcksfors 15 m
Lennartsfors-Ed stretch 14.5 m
Vänern-Fröskog stretch 14 m
Vänern-Gustavsfors (downstream lock) 17 m
Upstream Gustavsfors 11.75 m. Note: Östra Silen at Högbergsholmen (towards Harnäsfjorden / Signebyn) 11.0 m
Lennartsfors-Holmerudsfors 17 m (A power line that limited air draft to 10.5 m has been replaced by a sea cable).
Length: 253 km
Highest point above sea level (Stora Le): 102 m
Kilde: Dalsland Canal Sweden.
Music by: Peder B. Helland
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Video copyright: Jan Wulff Møller
I've watched numerous videos of personally operated boat trips through the canals of Europe but have never seen one in Sweden until now. And how beautiful Sweden seems to be.
Yes your right, Sweden is incredibly beautiful, but Norway is even more beautiful, or more beautiful in another
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Sweden and Norway is very nice, please see this from Norway.
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Thank you for including me in this journey. Every minute was beautiful.
Zwischen all dem TH-cam Trash mit all seinen aufzustreben versuchenden Hobbyinfluenzern ist dieses Video hier eine wahre Goldperle🙏🏻 So schön, sooo entspannend, einfach nur grandios und es zeigt Schweden als genau das was es ist - pur, einfach, naturgewaltig.... Heilung für so manch alltagsgestresst Flüchtenden - Danke für diese Perle 🙏🏻
Beautiful and very peaceful. Great music.
Nothing dull about it. It is just absolutely beautiful and relaxing. The music complements it.
Had the pleasure of 1/2 day ride in the area of Bengtsfors. It was a beautiful experience. Great pilot Jan Carlsson.
Thank you for this lovely tour in the Dalsland Canal!
I live in Melbourne and thoroughly enjoyed the locks , bridges and sceneries ,😁👍🇦🇺🇸🇪
I fell asleep watching this last night. Woke up 10 minutes before i usually leave for work and didn't give a damn. I had the best nights sleep I'd had in a g e s. Thank you for this.
Thank you for your kind words, it makes me want to make more movies like this, thanks
Jag älskar Sverige!! Hälsningar från Tyskland
I live in Sweden and I’ve never even set foot in this county. But I absolutely must. Stunning scenery.
Do you live in Sweden or above it?
@@seth3209 Above it? I live in Sweden but have never been to the COUNTY of Dalsland.
I really like the music - it fits in with the beautiful scenery...👍
Hello Keith. Thanks.
YES
Very relaxing video with a good mix between camera wiew from the boat and the drone.
Next time you do a video it would be nice with a map in the beginning to show the actual route.
Excellent manouvering of the boat!
*Thank you so much for this amazingly beautiful video!*
You are welcome, thanks for your comment. You can see more here: th-cam.com/video/Z471m8D_ONw/w-d-xo.html
Love the music you picked to this video, made it so amazing to watch!
Beautiful relaxing video. Thank you so much for sharing.
This looks so tranquil and beautiful. I've only been on a boat twice in 34 years total. I would absolutely love to sail through tthis beautiful locations.
That is one awesome video of beautiful country.....Larry, Southern Indiana, USA
Hi Larry
Thank you very much for your comment. Also try to see this as is in even finer landscape thanks for looking.
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A wonderful Journey, thank you so much!
Superb and very enjoyable to watch.
Релакс. .Когда хочу отдохнуть, включаю это видео. Очень приятная прогулка. Спасибо.
Так for your comment. That is nice to hear. th-cam.com/video/Z471m8D_ONw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Fabulous scenery and I love the drone footage.
Dark chocolate, 100% cacao from Tanzania, a bottle of Diplomatico from Venezuela - and this video and calm music - a perfect monday evening! Thank´s a lot!
So damn incredible and some of the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen in my life,and the aqueduct is unreal and the bridges everything is so beautiful thank you 🙏 for this
Dear Frank
Thank you for your kind words. I have some good ideas for several places where I will film in 2021 and post here on the channel this fall.
So you are very welcome to like my channel, so you will be notified when there are new videos.
Thanks for watching my video.
Regards Jan
Beautiful video. The captain is second to none
I seriously must visit Sweden one day.....great video thanks 👏
These waterways look beautiful and enjoyable and I love the music thank you for this good video.
It is indeed beautiful. Plus the engineering is splendid!
Excellent boating skills, great first mate, beautiful country, magical, bucolic, great video
That watersystem has made me spend many summer holidays. The trip up from Gothenburg is worth everything
Grattis med en fantastisk video. Bruken av drone gjorde videoen perfekt etter mitt syn. Noe av det beste jeg har sett her på TH-cam på flere år. Meget imponert.
Tranquil & pristine.
The magnificent scenery, beautiful weather, a slow moving boat and gentle caressing music. It made me feel I was asleep and dreaming this truly magnificent part of our planet. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Thank you so much Chris, we will be making more videos this summer
En lysande vacker film. Jag har aldrig varit i Dalsland, men nu har jag genom filmen fått uppleva Dalslands kanal, Så vackert- Himmelriket är nära. Stort tack för filmen.
What an incredible journey! So beautiful. And with that music it made my eyes wet.
I would have loved a map though to show the route.
HI Hans
Thank you.
We are just making a film in Telemark's channel right now in Norway and with better equipment and there I will make a map of the route.
Thank you for your comment.
Regards Jan
Beautiful. Now that would be a great location to travel on my narrowboat. :)
Utroligt smukt, mange tak!
Tak for din kommentar
OMG I want a house there ! So beautifull place to live. Thanks for sharing this video with us ! :)
So nice this. We might do this trip one day. Some years ago we did a trip to Denmark with our motorboat (from the Netherlands).
Plan was to do part of the UK in 2020, but than the world shutdown due to this stupid virus.
Thank you for sharing...... 1000 tak!
Calm peaceful paradise
Very beautiful. Good luck with your videos. Greetings from the banks of the Volga.
Awesome video. Paradise. Excellent navigation skills also captain!!. Reminds me also of where I'm from northern ont. Canada. Killarney. Lake Huron back channels and 30k Island trips. What a lifestyle
Also, northern Minnesota and the boundary waters in Canada.
Outstanding video, well done by all involved.
I have never been to Minnesota. It is hard to believe all the different city's you can visit if you have the balls and craft to navigate through the great lakes. When out there it seems like there is no Canada and US border. Like we are all free to visit each other in either country. Sometimes I think the only thing that separates us is the greedy people that we elect into power!!! I love Michigan South and North as I have a couple log homes I crafted in Michigan so I spent quite a bit of time there. Also love Penn state . And he'll all the states I drove through on route to Florida were amazing and that included 99% of American people. Awesom times.
Fenomenally beautifull video! A great deal of respect for the captain and crew for the handling on these narrow canals.
It is beautiful ! Best regards from Poland !!!
I feel like I just took the most relaxing vacation ever. Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing
i hope the paradise will look like this
Awesome video thanks for sharing. Talk about living the dream.
Absolutely stunning. Thank you.
Tak for den inspirerende tur
Brilliantly edited, beautiful day, great terrain and places and music gives a really good atmosphere of the place.
Perhaps the best piece of relaxing video I've ever found, thank you from Finland.
Thank you for posting this wonderful video! Most of us would never be able to experience something like this otherwise.
From Englewood, Ohio USA. Thanks for letting me ride on your journey. Absolutely beautiful.
Greetings from the beautiful San Juan Islands, Washington state
This is a very beautiful paradise !!!
The most wonderful and fabulous landscape true absolutely !!! Great nature scenery in Sweden ever !!! 🇸🇪 👍🏻💙
Congratulations Sweden and to all swedish peoples .
Thank for uploading . Greetings from Chile . 🇨🇱
beautiful thank you 👍
thanks for watching the video
look like dream... holy mama... i wish be there and live in
Tack för seglatsen , mycket vackert och intressant.
Wow what beautiful, now I only need is a Sargo 33
très belle promenade sur les canaux de la Suède et enchanteur
wow beautiful . i like that video so much
Bravo Bravo!
Grateful for this look at the canal, despite my comments below.
Heavenly landscape passing serene waterways while playing such comforting music, this video exudes a feeling of peaceful well being that is medicinal. Thank you kindly for posting.
Check out the great Trent/Severn waterway in Ontario, Canada. From near Picton, Ontario, you can travel several hundred miles through lakes, rivers and many locks all the way to Georgian Bay and beyond. Great trip with plenty of places to stop for fuel, supplies, overnight accommodation, campgrounds, etc. Take a look at the Peterborough Lift Locks and Big Chute.
Wow beautiful place 😮
A great film, not intrusive in any phase. Without talking !! Many bloggers can learn a lot from this, especially those who always have to comment on everything I think.
Hold your horses, this is pure medicine :-)
European countries are always beautiful n Cooling with blue water n relaxing people
When I was in Moora it was minus 35 celsius, nice to see some sunshine and warmth here.
The Nordic country's are extremely beautiful in all their seasons, and are inhabited by the most beautiful people.
🥰Norway 🥰Sweden 🥰Finland 🥰Denmark
Visit MALMO !!
@@StephenMortimer Yes, please visit Malmö! It is a wonderful city.
This has to be similar too heaven it has be this so heavenly
Sweden is full of waterways. A very beautiful country.
Agree
This is slow-tv at its best!
i have make my own speedboat...
Wow. It must smell awesome up there. I'll bet the fishing is good too. This rivals the canals of Venice with Pro-walk tours. Did you scrape the sides at all ?(I'm sure that's bow and stern thruster country). Thanks for the tour ! Fantastic.
This is stunning! Sweden is such a beautiful country!
Well done. Inserting the 20+ year old pic was amazing detail to story.. THX.
Sooooo Nice 👍👌
Magnificent landscape, if envy killed, I would be dead right now kkkkk. Congratulations on the footage 👏👏👏
You can see why boats always have been important to the scandinavians. This was our motorways.
En sådan tur skulle varje doktor ordinera,kan var bra mot många ”åkommor” :) :) :)
Thank you for posting. Looks like heaven to me.
Reminds me of upstate New York, northern Minnesota or Michigan. I wish.
What size is you boat?
Hi Tim
OK, interesting. Could be interesting to see something from there.
The boat is 36 feet and 3.70 wide.
Now we are in the Telemark channel in Norway which is even more beautiful, and films with some much better equipment.
It comes on the canal for winter time.
Thanks for the comment.
Regards Jan.
Foi o vídeo mais lindo que eu vi.
Muito obrigado, bom ouvir. Veja também isso se você gosta. th-cam.com/video/Z471m8D_ONw/w-d-xo.html
Dalsland is a hidden swedish gem, really!
Yes, it is absolutely fantastic.
See also this one from Norway
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In times one can't travel, your video was very much appreciated. Thank you!
Sweden is beautiful.
Vacker fin video !!!!!!!!!!
Maravilhoso, é de encher os olhos, tanta beleza.
This was a tour of beauty only. And whoever steered that boat - I salute you. I fled Europe for pol reasons, this made me homesick. Be well and thanks.
I second that....beautiful and relaxing.
absolutely fascinating and very well done, thank you!
I love the women knowing what to Do & when !!! You are a VERY LUCKY person --- GREAT WORK
What an absolutely magical landscape and history and journey and video!!! This is better than the panama canal, magnificent engineering concept!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Amazingly and beautifully done! ❤️ I live near Dalälven on the hillside in Djurmo, Gagnef. I love every moment of it!
“It’s about the journey”
So much beauty, hidden inland.
Tak fordi i deler disse klip fra det smukke Sverige 👍
Tusen takk for den nydelige videoen fra mitt nye hjemland, Dalsland i vackra Sverige!
Välkommen!
Very relaxing. Nice scenery. Thanks for the video. It is not possible for me to reach this part of world in my life.
Weep not for what you cannot experience yourself in a lifetime but rejoice that you can see it through someone else's eyes. You are in good company.
Beautiful country
Spent so many childhood holidays with my dad and brother kayaking these waters, this brings back memories
love it thank you.
Härlig tur 👍. Har själv åkt den några ggr , men så trevligt att återuppleva det igen. Är 30 år sedan. 💖
So beautiful thank you so much. It's a heaven where's you live.God bless you. Respect you guys