Brouwersdam
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ N , 3 ° 51 ′ 36 ″ E
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The Brouwersdam is the seventh structure of the Delta Works in the Netherlands . It closes the Brouwershavense Gat ( German Brouwershavener Loch ). The Grevelingenmeer was created through the closure at Brouwersdam and the construction of the Grevelingen dam near Brunisse .
history
Construction of the six-kilometer-long dam began in 1962. The arm of the lake between Goeree-Overflakkee and Schouwen-Duiveland was up to 30 meters deep. The Brouwersdam was completed in 1971 and is part of Rijksweg 57 , also known as the N 57 national road. After that, a sluice was built into the dam, which also serves as a fish passage . This was completed on June 1, 1978.
tourism
The Port Zélande bungalow park is located roughly in the middle of the dam . The Brouwersdam offers unimpeded access to the sea over its entire length on the lake side, for the most part with a fine-grained sandy beach. Museum trains also run on their own route on the Brouwersdam on a few days.
The Brouwersdam has been known as a windsurfing area since the early 1980s. A provisional surf school was opened at Kabelaarsbank at the end of the 1980s and a stationary surf school in 1993. The Kabelaarsbank area is a very popular spot for water sports enthusiasts from the Netherlands , Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia . There are also opportunities for windsurfing, kite surfing and beach buggy riding on the North Sea side. Kitesurfing is only allowed in a signposted area on this side of the dam.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Brouwersdam ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved July 25, 2017.
