The Texel lift bridge is the “head” of the entrance to the city of Dunkirk by the sea and of the Neptune urban planning project carried out by Richard Rogers.
It has a strategic position seen from the Place du Minck, a meeting place and a metaphor for the close relationship between city and port, and through the link it provides between the former Normed site and the Citadel.
This bridge is composed symmetrically by a system of lifting decks and candelabra masts 15 m high in the shape of a V open to the site, both in the open and closed position.
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September 26, 2019

Iconic drawbridge at the harbor entrance.
There were two Texel battles in the 17th century. You can probably guess which Dunkerque chose to name this bridge: Historically, the most relevant happened in 1673, when the Dutch managed to repel an aggressive invasion by France (allied to the English fleet), which for more than one year had occupied half of the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Texel
However, 20 years later, in 1694, when a small battle was taking place on the Dutch island of Texel, the local Dunkirk hero, Jean Bart, freed three ships captured by Dutch privateers (piracy was a kind of gallant sport at the time) with food that France urgently needed after a devastating harvest and famine this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Texel_(1694)

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Manfred

September 27, 2019

Nice building. A drawbridge

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