Lock and Hydroelectric Power Plant Brandýs nad Labem
Zdymadlo a vodní elektrárna Brandýs nad Labem
A functionalist water management complex on the Elbe River, built in the 1930s, comprising a weir, a navigation lock, and a hydroelectric power plant. It is a significant piece of industrial architecture and a key part of the Elbe waterway.

📜 A functionalist water management complex on the Elbe River, built between 1930 and 1936.
⚙️ Features a movable weir, navigation lock, and hydroelectric power plant.

Why Go

✨ Discover a significant piece of industrial architecture by Kamil Roškot
🌊 Explore a key part of the Elbe waterway, regulating navigation and providing flood protection
💡 See a hydroelectric power plant with two Kaplan turbines (1.98 MW output), commissioned in 1934 and reconstructed in 2017
🐠 Observe the 19-meter-long chambered fish pass
🛶 Check out the artificial slalom course built in 1979 on the mill race outflow channel
📏 Learn about the weir's three 23-meter-wide fields with a 4.2-meter damming height
🚢 Note the single-chamber navigation lock, 85 meters long and 12 meters wide
🚶‍♀️ Until March 2013, the weir's service bridge served as a public footbridge

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industrial heritageengineeringhydroelectric power plantwaterwaylockfunctionalist architecture