Deûle
The Deûle (Dutch Deule ) is a river in northern France, in the Nord -Pas -de -Calais. It crosses the departments of Pas -de- Calais and Nord.
Geography
Its two headwaters Saint- Nazaire and Clarency unite in the place Souchez, the river Souchez, which is called the upper reaches of the Deûle and goes after a few kilometers in Lens in the Canal de Lens. This channel is a random channel and flows into the Courrières from here as channeled Deûle (also: Canal de la Deûle ) designated watercourse. Under this name, it then flows through Lille and its confluence with Deûlémont (Dutch Deulemonde ), on the Belgian- French border. There, it opens as a right tributary to the river Lys (French: Lys ), a tributary of the Scheldt.
Shipping
The river is channeled almost its entire length for the shipping, only its upper reaches still flows under natural conditions.
The channelized Deûle includes the following sections:
- Branch canal Canal de Lens ( German: Lens- channel ), length 8.5 km
- Distance between Bauvin and Marquette -lez -Lille length 23 km, 2 locks
- Branch canal Canal de Seclin ( German: Seclin channel), length 4.5 km
- Lower Deûle ( German: Lower Deûle ), length 11 km, 1 lock
The channelized Deûle is passable since 2004 consistently for ships of Category IV with a loading capacity of 1,350 tonnes ( Europe ship). Exception of the branch ducts, which have remained in the Freycinet format, but are hardly used today. The section of the large shipping lane Dunkirk -Scheldt is navigable by ships up to a loading capacity of 3000 tons.
History
The Deûle is channeled since the Middle Ages. In the 17th century there was a connection with the existence Scarpe to Douai. In the 19th century, Lille became the center of a network of waterways for Pénichen with canals and canalised rivers to Belgium, Calais, Douai and Dunkirk in particular. It was not until the late 20th century began the Deûle so expand that a traffic with Europe ships of Belgium on the River Lys to Northern France is consistently possible.