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Bailey Bridge over the Demer

Bailey Bridge over the Demer

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Bailey Bridge over the Demer

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Location: Rotselaar, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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July 11, 2024

This Bailey Bridge is an established architectural heritage that was indeed only constructed in the early 1950s as an exercise by sappers. The link where you can consult this yourself can be found at inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/216479

There are several picnic benches on the north side of the bridge (and therefore the Demerdijk Noord). On the south side you are just a few hundred meters from the place where the Winge flows into the Demer.

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Seppe

November 24, 2020

Bailey bridge over the Demer constructed in the 1950s.

This place was a crossing of the Demer between Werchter and Rotselaar. Until the 1940s this was a small ferry, called the "Schuit". A wooden pontoon, pulled by an iron chain, was tied to the riverbed. The current so-called "Soldiers' Bridge" was constructed in the early 1950s by sappers as an exercise.

This is the Bailey bridge type. These are steel truss bridges designed by the English engineer Donald Coleman Bailey (1901-1985). The type was designed in 1940 as a military emergency bridge that was often built especially at the end of and after the Second World War. It is a type of truss bridge constructed from panels and cross beams that are connected to each other. They were designed to be built as a temporary bridge using manpower alone. In Maldegem, a Bailey bridge built at the end of the Second World War has been preserved. The current bridge over the Demer has green painted trusses and wooden planking as a bridge deck.

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Jeff S

July 29, 2021

Bridge over the Demer... In the summer there is already an ice cream truck...

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Location: Rotselaar, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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