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In June 1887, construction works started at Holtenau, near Kiel.
The canal took over 9, 000 workers eight years to build.
On June 20, 1895, the canal was officially opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II for transiting from Brunsbüttel to Holtenau.
The next day, a ceremony was held in Holtenau where Wilhelm II named it the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal ( after Kaiser Wilhelm I ), and laid the final stone.
The opening of the canal was filmed by British director Birt Acres and surviving footage of this early film is preserved in the Science Museum in London.
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