Sambre–Oise Canal
The channel in Catillon -sur -Sambre
The Canal de la Sambre à l' Oise ( German: Sambre -Oise Canal ) is a French Ship Canal, which runs in the regions of Nord-Pas -de- Calais and Picardy.
Geography
The canal connects the valleys of the rivers Sambre and Oise, and is part of an inland waterway, connecting Belgium with Northwest France and the greater Paris area. This route consists of the following waterways:
- Sambre - as channeled flow
- Canal de la Sambre à l' Oise
- Canal de Saint- Quentin
- Lateral Canal à l' Oise
- Oise - as channeled flow
- His - as channeled flow
Development and technical infrastructure
The Canal de la Sambre à l' Oise begins at Landrecies, where he has connection to the channelized river Sambre. It is a channel of the type watersheds canal, its summit level is Boué. The height difference to its starting point in the Sambre valley is ten meters and is surmounted by three locks, that the Oise Valley is 92 meters and requires 35 locks. In Tergnier the channel opens ( German: Port of Saint- Quentin ) to a total length of 71 kilometers in the Canal de Saint- Quentin. Formally, include the last four kilometers between La Fere and Tergnier already to the port of Saint -Quentin, as they had already existed at the time of construction as part of it.
The water supply to the channel of the old upper reaches of the Sambre (now Ancienne Sambre ) jammed in Boué to a lake and across fed via the original watershed tributary the Oise Noirrieux. Until Oisy the channel direction Landrecies runs parallel to the river Sambre, whose earlier first tributary to the new upper reaches of the water and was also removed. South of the summit level of the canal follows the said Noirrieux up to its confluence with the Oise at Vadencourt through whose lowland the southernmost part was built.
Coordinates
- Source of the canal: 50 ° 7 ' 35 " N, 3 ° 41' 15" O50.1263888888893.6875Koordinaten: 50 ° 7 ' 35 " N, 3 ° 41' 15" E
- Endpoint of the channel: 49 ° 39 '2 " N, 3 ° 18' 18" O49.6505555555563.305
By Crossed departments
- North
- Aisne
Places on the canal
History
The establishment of the Sambre -Oise Canal was decided at the beginning of the 19th century with the goal of an adequate supply of coal from Paris to coalfield of Charleroi ( Belgium) to worry. The work began in 1834, the canal was opened after 5 years of construction 1839.
During the First World War, the canal was fiercely contested. Notoriety reached the British poet Wilfred Owen, who a few days before the war ended, on 4 November 1918, as a British officer was here his life at Ors.
Economic Importance
Cargo shipping has gradually lost its importance. Cargo ship takes on this route connecting the Canal du Nord - Großschifffahrtsweg Dunkirk -Scheldt, which is why the Sambre -Oise Canal has a weak traffic.
Attractions
The channel runs in the Nord through the Regional Nature Park Avesnois.