Swoboda Lock Explained

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.

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