Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise
| Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise | |
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 The canal in Catillon-sur-Sambre |
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| Water code | FR : D0--022- , FR : D0000492 , FR : ---- 0222 |
| location | France , Hauts-de-France region |
| length | 71 km |
| Built | 1834-1839 |
| class | I ( Freycinet class ) |
| Beginning | Transition from the channeled Sambre to Landrecies |
| The End | It flows into the Canal de Saint-Quentin near Tergnier |
| Descent structures | 38 |
| Ports | Landrecies, Tergnier |
| Used river | Sambre, Noirrieux |
| Kilometrage | from Landrecies direction to the Oise |
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The Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise ( German: Sambre-Oise-Kanal ) is a French shipping canal that runs in the Hauts-de-France region .
geography
The canal connects the valleys of the Sambre and Oise rivers and is part of an inland waterway that connects Belgium with north-west France and the greater Paris area. This route consists of the following waterways:
- Sambre - as a channeled river
- Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise
- Canal de Saint-Quentin
- Canal latéral à l'Oise
- Oise - as a canalized river
- Seine - as a channeled river
Course and technical infrastructure
The Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise begins at Landrecies , where it connects to the canalized Sambre River. It is a canal of the watershed type , its apex position is at Boué . The difference in altitude to its starting point in the Sambre Valley is ten meters and is overcome by three locks , while that to the Oise Valley is 92 meters and requires 35 locks. At Tergnier , the canal flows into the Canal de Saint-Quentin ( German: Canal of Saint-Quentin ) after a total length of 71 kilometers . From a formal point of view, the last four kilometers between La Fère and Tergnier already belong to the Saint-Quentin Canal, as they had already existed as part of it at the time of construction.
For the water supply of the canal, the old upper reaches of the Sambre (today Ancienne Sambre ) was dammed into a lake near Boué and fed across the original watershed to the Noirrieux tributary of the Oise . As far as Oisy , the canal from Landrecies runs parallel to the Sambre river, whose former first tributary became the new upper course and from which water is also taken. To the south of the apex, the canal follows the Noirrieux to its confluence with the Oise near Vadencourt , through whose lowland the southernmost part was built.
Coordinates
- Starting point of the canal: 50 ° 7 ′ 35 ″ N , 3 ° 41 ′ 15 ″ E
- End point of the canal: 49 ° 39 ′ 2 ″ N , 3 ° 18 ′ 18 ″ E
Crossed departments
Places on the canal
history
The construction of the Sambre-Oise Canal was decided at the beginning of the 19th century with the aim of providing Paris with sufficient coal from the Charleroi coalfield (Belgium). Work began in 1834 and the canal was opened in 1839 after a 5-year construction period.
During the First World War , the canal was fiercely contested . The British poet Wilfred Owen gained notoriety when he died here a few days before the end of the war, on November 4, 1918, at Ors as a British officer.
Economical meaning
Freight shipping has gradually lost its importance. Large shipping uses the Canal du Nord - large shipping route Dunkirk-Scheldt for this route , which is why the Sambre-Oise Canal has little traffic.
Attractions
The canal runs through the Avesnois Regional Nature Park in the North Department .
Web links
literature
- David Edwards-May: Inland waters of France , 5th edition, Verlag Edition Maritim, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-922117-61-9
- Navicarte Guide de navigation fluvial - n ° 24 , July 2005, Edition Grafocarte, ISBN 2-7416-0149-6
Individual proof
- ↑ The information on the length of the canal over the Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise (southern section) at SANDRE (French) and Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise (vertex position) at SANDRE (French), accessed on December 14, 2011, could not be taken over, since the missing northern section from Rejet-de-Beaulieu is already assigned to the canalized Sambre. The length therefore comes from the nautical documents (see sources).