The Ganzepoot is a lock complex in the inner harbor of the Belgian city Nieuwpoort. Six waterways come together in the complex, which are connected to the North Sea via …
The area was created by clay extraction from the Nieuwpoort brick factory. This created six shallow clay pits between 1945 and 1979 on an area of 22 hectares.
In 1928, the contracting firm of Julien and Jerome Soetaert started on the right bank of the Yser, halfway between Nieuwpoort-Stad and the salt marsh area, with the construction of …