Lock Name: | Swoboda Lock |
Waterway: | Augustów Canal |
State: | Podlaskie |
County: | Augustów |
Operation: | Manual |
Maint: | RZGW |
First: | 1826-1827 |
Latest: | rebuilt 1960's |
Length: | 45.771NaN1 |
Width: | 5.951NaN1 |
Fall: | 1.71NaN1 |
Enda: | Biebrza River |
Distenda: | 47.71NaN1 |
Endb: | Niemen River |
Distendb: | 53.51NaN1 |
Coordinates: | 53.8667°N 23.1451°W |
Swoboda Lock is the seventh lock on the Augustów Canal (from the Biebrza). It is situated amidst the Augustów Forest near Lake Studzieniczne. Built between 1826 and 1827 by Lt.-Col. Eng. Jan Paweł Lelewel. In the 1960s has undergone modernization involving the replacement of original wooden gates with metal crank-driven mechanism raised, reinforced concrete bridge was built a distinctive and concreting awanportu. New system to move the gates did not work and was later by one of the membranes removed, and replaced the original system of drawbars.