Przewięź Lock
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Przewięź Lock - the sixth lock on the Augustów Canal
(from the Biebrza
River). Located in the village Przewięź
, Poland
between the lakes Lake Studzienicznym and Lake Białym Augustowskim was built in the 1826 - 1827 by Lt.-Col. Eng. August Szulc. To this day, preserved in their original condition.
Augustów Canal
The Augustów Canal is a cross-border canal built in the 19th century in the present-day Podlaskie Voivodeship of northeastern Poland and the Hrodna Voblast of north-western Belarus...
(from the Biebrza
Biebrza
Biebrza is a river in north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Narew river , with a length of 155 kilometres and the basin area of 7,057 km2...
River). Located in the village Przewięź
Przewiez
Przewięź is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płaska, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately west of Płaska, east of Augustów, and north of the regional capital Białystok.-References:...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
between the lakes Lake Studzienicznym and Lake Białym Augustowskim was built in the 1826 - 1827 by Lt.-Col. Eng. August Szulc. To this day, preserved in their original condition.
- Location: 43.6 km channel
- Level difference: 0.86 m
- Length: 46.17 m
- Width: 5.96 m
- Gates: Wooden
- Year built: 1826 - 1827
- Construction Manager: Lt.-Col. Eng. August Szulc