The Linne-Buggenum Lateral Channel is between Heel and Buggenum and is 8.9 km long.
The channel was opened in 1972. At the west of the already existing Sluis Linne, Sluis Heel was also ready. Sluis Linne was built in the 1920s. The Osen Castle, which had become very desolate since 1887, had to go away in 1920. The neighborhood of Osen was almost completely excavated, where Stuw Linne was constructed and cut a Maasbocht. Inland navigation could then, through Sluis Roermond and Sluis Linne, maintain the Meuse upstream, thus creating the Loop of Linne.
The Lateral Channel made it possible for inland navigation to cut even more corners, with only one lock to be passed: the Sluis Heel, which was also opened in 1972, enabling a shorter and faster shipping route. In the heavily widened area north of the Tunnel Linne, nature development has taken place since 1997. 51° 12′ NB, 5° 57′ OL
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