bascule bridge in English

bridge that is counterpoised in order to facilitate its raising and lowering, balanced drawbridge

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1. The centre of the old part is located on the island, south-east from the bascule bridge.

2. Pont basculant de la Seyne-sur-Mer is a former bascule bridge in La Seyne-sur-Mer in France.

3. The present Town Bridge, built in 1930, is a lifting bascule bridge allowing boats to access the inner harbour.

4. Southeast from the bascule bridge and behind the last houses and the church of Sv. Andrija lays a rocky beach.

5. Its predecessor was a wooden bascule bridge built in 1709 below the Schönhauser Graben stream and known as the Unterbaum Bridge.

6. Shortly thereafter, the line passes over the 133-metre-long Ziegelgraben Bridge - a bascule bridge - to the island of Dänholm off the Strelasund.

7. Jones had traveled widely, and the small drawbridges that spanned canals in the Netherlands gave him the idea of a counter-balancing bascule bridge.

8. A bascule bridge was built in this place, which is a real summer attraction and when opened also an important bond on the north-south nautical rout.

9. At the same time the Peene bridge in Anklam was replaced, with the old rolling bascule bridge replaced by two bascule bridges with a span of 32 metres.

10. This was at first a low, sliding bridge, and since 1957 a simple-leaf Bascule bridge, but dating from the early 1990s has been locked and unable to open.