Vlotbrug (plural, Dutch: vlotbruggen) translates from Dutch into English as "raft bridge". It is a special kind of floating Retractable bridges at the Great North Holland Canal which pivot either centrally or from one or both banks of a body of water to allow vessels to pass through.
In the Dutch province of North Holland, a vlotbrug is a retractable pontoon bridge which opens for water traffic by retracting in its long direction, with the roadway sliding under fixed structure(s) on canal bank(s). This article relates to bridges of that design. In the eastern Netherlands, a name for that design of bridge was scholle.[Note 1]
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