Peace Bridge

The Peace Bridge or Bridge of Willebroek is an industrial lift bridge with a remarkable metal structure over the Brussels-Scheldt Canal in Willebroek. The bridge is of the portal type in steel truss construction, built between 1947 and 1952 by the Société Anonyme de Construction et des Ateliers de Willebroeck. This company also built the Ponte Luís I over the Douro in Portugal. Further along the canal, similar bridges were constructed in the same period, including the now-replaced Jan Bogaerts Bridge in Kapelle-op-den-Bos and the still-existing Budabridge in Neder-Over-Heembeek. The design had already been applied in 1932 on the Old Maas in Barendrecht, Netherlands. This so-called Barendrecht Bridge has since been replaced by the Heinenoord Tunnel. On July 22, 1969, the last cars crossed the Barendrecht Bridge. Another famous portal bridge is De Hef in Rotterdam, which has been a national monument since April 3, 2000.

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