Canal de Brienne
Coordinates: 43 ° 36 ′ 15 ″ N , 1 ° 26 ′ 3 ″ E
The Canal de Brienne is with 1,560 meters in length very short navigation canal in the southern French city of Toulouse , the river Garonne to the Canal du Midi and the Canal latéral à la Garonne connects.
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The canal was built by Joseph-Marie de Saget from 1768 and officially inaugurated on April 14, 1776. The reason for the construction was that the Canal du Midi, which was built a hundred years earlier, ran outside of what was then the city of Toulouse and flowed into the Garonne below the Bazacle (a mill weir ). The Toulouse Garonne port of Daurade , located further up the river, and the upper reaches of the river and the Ariège could hardly be reached from the canal, as the boats had to be brought across the step.
The new canal ran from the last Canal du Midi port, Port de l'Embouchure, to the Ecluse Saint-Pierre lock on the Garonne, west of Place Saint-Pierre and was therefore first named Canal Saint-Pierre before being named after Archbishop Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne was named.
At the junction between the Canal du Midi and the Canal de Brienne at Port de l'Embouchure, two bridges were built over the two canals, the so-called Ponts-Jumeaux .
When the Garonne Lateral Canal was built in the middle of the 19th century, which also emanates from the Port de l'Embouchure / Ponts-Jumeaux and, together with the Canal du Midi, forms the Canal des Deux Mers , the Canal de Brienne served to support it To supply water from the Garonne. The old mouth of the Canal du Midi into the Garonne was filled in, making the Canal de Brienne the only navigable connection between the Garonne and the Canal des Deux Mers up to its mouth at Castets-en-Dorthe near Bordeaux .
As well as the Canal du Midi, the Canal de Brienne on both banks Avenue -like planted with trees. Nowadays there are mainly residential areas on both sides of the canal, and the campus of the University of Toulouse I (including the Manufacture des Tabacs, which has been converted into a university building ) also borders the canal.
