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A quiet and peaceful spot. A place to sit when the sun is shining and enjoy the coolness of the trees and the water.

Beautiful section of the old canal

In dry weather after the development it's great

The Arquennes Swing Bridge is a metal swing bridge over the old Charleroi-Brussels Canal in Arquennes, a sub-municipality of Seneffe in the province of Hainaut. The bridge is actually a double-deck bridge, with a raised fixed section for pedestrians, and a movable section at street level for car traffic. The car bridge rotated on its horizontal axis in the middle of the canal, creating two passageways when the bridge was open. The bridge was classified as a site on 7 November 1978 and classified as a monument on 4 August 1989 by the province of Hainaut. Because the old canal was replaced by a wider canal and the Ronquières inclined plane took over the function of the many locks on the old canal, the bridge has become a fixed structure and both the pedestrian bridge and the central pontoon in the canal have fallen into disrepair.

The Bridge of Origin bore this name because from this point the tax to be paid was calculated, corresponding to the distance to be covered by boat. This tax is called the navigation tax and is calculated in tons/kilometer. This bridge is of the drawbridge type, that is to say that it rotates while going up around an axis located at the level of the deck. The structure of the bridge is called a latticework and offers a navigable passage of 6 meters. The swing is balanced by a counterweight on top of the structure.

Partly nice asphalt, a large part covered with concrete slabs - really hard on the wrists.

It is still a lock and its keeper's house along the old canal. This time it is number 25 in Ronquières.