Opatovice raft

The original raft was built on dry land by Vilém from Pernštejn, who wanted to irrigate the sandbars 3 hours long and 1 ½ hours wide between Opatovice nad Labem and Semín with Elbe water and to feed a number of newly established ponds. He thus had a costly weir built in the Elbe river, the construction of which was completed in 1513, and over it the Opatovice Canal was gradually established in the years 1491-1521, on which the...