Soot Canal
The Soot Canal was a canal system located at Eidskog in Innlandet, Norway. Constructed in 1849, it has Norway's oldest sluice gates. It was the work of Engebret Soot (1786-1859). It was built to allow timber to be transported (floated) to the Halden sawmills. The canal was 1.5 km long and had 16 locks which extended from Lake Skjervangen at 185 m above sea level up to Lake Mortsjølungen at 201 m above sea level.[1][2]
The Soot Canal was in operation from 1849 to 1932. The channel consisted of the original 15 locks between Skjervangen and Mortskjølungen. Grasmobanen, a 1460 meter long railroad that hauled the timber between the lakes Mortsjølungen and Tvillingtjern, was also part of the canal system.[3] In 1987, the municipality of Eidskog acquired rights to the countercurrent sluice system and labeled it a landmark attraction.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Historien om Sootkanalen". Eidskog Museum. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ Jan Wiig. "Engebret Soot, Kanalbygger". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ "Grasmobanen". Jernbane.net. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ "Sootkanalen". Eidskog kommune. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
Other sources[]
- "Great pictures of the sluice gates" (Norwegian). Blogspot. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
- "Sootkanalen" (Norwegian). Info from Eidskogmuseum. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- "Sootkanalen" (Norwegian). Info from Akershusmuseet. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
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Coordinates: 59°53′26.88″N 11°51′29.51″E / 59.8908000°N 11.8581972°E
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