General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Single-cell box girder bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Tramway, light or metro rail bridge Road bridge |
| Structure: |
Haunched girder bridge |
| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Next to: |
Deutzer Brücke (1948)
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| Coordinates: | 50° 56' 10.56" N 6° 57' 57.24" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 437.31 m | |
| span lengths | 132.134 m - 184.450 m - 120.728 m | |
| number of spans | 3 | |
| deck | deck width | 12 m |
| deck depth of main span | 3.20 - 7.80 m | |
| deck depth at abutments | 3.00 m / 3.17 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | German Mark 12 300 000 |
Materials
| deck |
prestressed concrete
|
|---|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Deutz Suspension Bridge (German:Deutzer Hängebrücke) was a self-anchored suspension bridge using eyebar chains, across the Rhine at Deutz in Cologne, Germany. It was built from 1913 to 1915. In 1935, it was named Hindenburg Bridge after Germany's second President deceased the previous year. It collapsed on 28 February 1945 during repair works and was replaced in 1948 by the world's first steel box girder bridge designed by Fritz Leonhardt and Gerd Lohmer. H. D. Robinson, who later worked with David B. Steinman on the Florianopolis Bridge, another eyebar chain bridge, consulted on the towers for the design of this Cologne bridge. It reportedly later served as inspiration for American bridge engineers and was specifically cited as a design influence on the Three Sisters bridges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as well as for the Kiyosu Bridge on the Sumida River in Tokyo.
Statistics
- span lengths 92 m – 185 m – 92 m
- deck width 18.7 m / 27.50 m
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Deutz Suspension Bridge" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1990): Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe. Brissaud, Poitiers (France), pp. 80.
- (1980): Neue, frei vorgebaute Spannbetonbrücken über den Rhein in Köln-Deutz, Konstanz und Weil. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, v. 75, n. 7 (July 1980), pp. 153-160, 197-200.
- (1999): Tierra sobre el agua. Visión histórica universal de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), pp. 110.
- (1996): Über Brücken. Köln und der Rhein. conMedia Verlag, Cologne (Germany), pp. 187.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000177 - Published on:
28/04/1999 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
