Channel of the East

The channel of the East is a channel French which connects the Meuse and the the Moselle with the the Saone. It starts with Givet, in Champagne-Ardenne, merges on 20 km with the Canal of the Marne in the Rhine at the time of the crossing of the Lorraine and finishes with Corre in Franche-Comté. Built between 1874 and 1887, its overall length is of 439 km.

Layout

The channel follows the course of the Meuse until Pagny-on-Meuse, joined - by perforated Toul - the Moselle which it goes up until Golbey. Follows a sinuous layout, strewn with many lock S, which makes it possible to join the valley of the Coney, a small affluent of the Saone. If the northern part is relatively easy, making it possible to connect the network of the Belgian channels and German via the the channeled Moselle, the southern part is forsaken, too slow, but been the subject of study for a modernization.

The Northern branch (CeBN), measured Givet with Troussey, where it joined the Canal of the Marne in the Rhine, is of 272 km; it is called also channel of the Meuse . The Southern branch (CeBS), starting from New-Houses is also called channel of the Vosges and shows 125 km. The new denominations go back to March 2003.

History

The project to connect the Saone to the Moselle had already been emitted by the Romans under the reign of Néron, according to a similar layout. The French defeat with the war of 1870 and the annexation of Alsace and part of Lorraine made essential the opening-up of the Vosges for the river transport. The channel of the East allowed navigation towards the south and the west via the Saone. Work of 1875 to 1887 was fast. boring of the channel of the East. For the operation of the locks, a gravity dam was built on the river Avière on the territory of the commune of Chaumousey, the stopping of the Lac of Bouzey. On a project of Freycinet and to perfect opening-up one wanted to dig a Canal of the Haute-Saône for Montbeliard, Ronchamp and Vesoul to the channeled Saone. This project is abandoned in 1919 after the victory.

List places of works of art

Haute-Saône: Pont turning of Saddles: classified historic building since 2001

The Ardennes

Givet, Chooz, Ham-on-Meuse, Aubrives, Poisonous-Wallerand, Montigny-on-Meuse, Haybes, Fumay, Revin, Monthermé, Bogny-sur-Meuse, Nouzonville, Charleville-Mézières, Nouvion-on-Meuse, Donchery, Sedan, Remilly-Aillicourt and Mouzon.

Meuse

Pouilly-on-Meuse, Inor, Martincourt-on-Meuse, Stenay, Mouzay, Sassey-on-Meuse, Dun-sur-Meuse, Liny-in front of-Dun, Vilosnes-Haraumont, Sivry-on-Meuse, Consenvoye, Brabant-on-Meuse, Samogneux, Champneuville, Arm-on-Meuse, Belleville-on-Meuse, Verdun, Haudainville, Dieue-on-Meuse, Génicourt-on-Meuse, Ambly-on-Meuse, Troyon, Lacroix-on-Meuse, Rouvrois-on-Meuse, Saint-Mihiel, Bislée, Kœur-the-Small, Sampigny, Vadonville, Lérouville, Commercy, Vertuzey and Troussey.

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Toul, the Chaudeney-on-Moselle, Maron, New-Houses, Bridge-Saint-Vincent, Méréville, the Flavigny-on-Moselle, Crévéchamps, the Neuviller-on-Moselle, Roville-in front of-Bayon, Bainville-with-Mirrors and Gripport.

The Vosges

Charms, Vincey, the Châtel-on-Moselle, Nomexy, Igney, the Thaon-the-Vosges, Épinal, Chaumousey, Girancourt, Thiélouze, Méloménil, Forging mill-with Uzemain, Forging mill-with-Thunimont, Hautmougey, Fontenoy-the-Castle, Montmotier and Magny.
  • a tow path arranged in Green lane, Vosgean section of the green lane Charles Bold the.
To make share with the greatest number of tourists the pleasure of discovering the layout of the channel of the East, the General advice of the Vosges puts in building site the installation of 70 km tow path between Socourt/Charmes at north and Fontenoy-the-Castle at the south. These installations are accessible in the bicycle, rollers and with foot. The first section of 6 km arranged in the sector of Vôge between Fontenoy the Castle and Hautmougey with the Bridge of the Côney was inaugurated Sunday first July 2007. A section of 1.5km connects the Thaon-the-Vosges and Épinal via Chavelot and Golbey.

Haute-Saône

Ambiévillers, Bridge-of-Wood, Saddles, Low-Vaivre the, Demangevelle, Vougécourt and Corre.

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