Swoboda Lock

Swoboda Lock

Lock
Waterway	Augustów Canal
Country	Poland
State	Podlaskie
County	Augustów
Maintained by	RZGW
Operation	Manual
First built	1826-1827
Latest built	rebuilt 1960's
Length	45.77 m (150.2 ft)
Width	5.95 m (19.5 ft)
Fall	1.7 m (5.6 ft)
Distance to Biebrza River	47.7 km (29.6 mi)
Distance to Niemen River	53.5 km (33.2 mi)
Coordinates	53°52′00″N 23°08′42″E / 53.866653°N 23.1451°E / 53.866653; 23.1451Coordinates: 53°52′00″N 23°08′42″E / 53.866653°N 23.1451°E / 53.866653; 23.1451

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.

• Location: 47.4 km channel
• Level difference: 1.7 m
• Length: 45.77 m
• Width: 5.95 m
• Gates: metal
• Year of construction: 1826–1827
• Construction Manager: Lt.-Col. Eng. John Paul Lelewel

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swoboda Lock.

• "opracowanie nt kanału Augustowskiego znajdujące się na stronach Regionalnego Zarządu Gospodarki Wodnej w Warszawie" (PDF) (in Polish). 
• Batura, Irena. (1997). Po ziemi augustowskiej : przewodnik dla turysty i wczasowicza (in Polish). Suwałki: Wydawnictwo Hańcza. ISBN 83-904804-9-2. 
• "Kanał Augustowski" (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2010.