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From the 15th to 19th century the Meuse at Wandre was crossed by a ferry. In 1884 the first bridge crossing between Herstal and Wandre was built; it consisted of a metal bowstring bridge across the canal, a seven-arched brick-and-stone viaduct across the land between the two waterways, then a box-section rectangular girder truss bridge across the Meuse supported on three piers.
"Maasbrücken in Belgien und Niederlande, Teil 2 - Brücken von Ampsin bis Maastricht" [Meuse bridges in Belgium and the Netherlands, Part 2 - Bridges from Ampsin to Maastricht]. karl-gotsch.de (in German). "Cable-Stayed Bridges of Europe... and Beyond (Belgium)". Pwpeics.se. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. "Suspension Bridges of ...
List of bridges in Belgium This page was last edited on 22 March 2018, at 17:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The costs of this Commission are met by all these countries, in proportion of their own territory in the basin of the Meuse: Netherlands 30%, Wallonia 30%, France 15%, Germany 14.5%, Flanders 5%, Brussels 4.5%, Kingdom of Belgium 0.5%, and Luxembourg 0.5%. The map of the basin area of Meuse was joined to the text of the treaty. [15]
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After this, Brussels showed no signs of slowing down on its journey to becoming one of the most influential cities in all of Europe. [3] By 1930, Brussels population was up to over 200,000, compared to an estimated 65,000 in 1700. [2] During the early 1980s, the 25 neighbourhoods around the canal were home to one fifth of Brussels' population.
The idea of a waterway to serve the cities of Hainaut, linking them ultimately with Antwerp, was first put forward during the reign of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1396–1467). In 1436, an edict authorised the modification and deepening of the Senne river, though the project turned out to be more expensive than previously thought.
Cable-stayed bridges in Belgium (1 P) T. Truss bridges in Belgium (2 P) V. Viaducts in Belgium (2 P)