General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Vertical lift bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Brest, Finistère (29), Bretagne, France |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Part of: | |
| Replaces: |
Pont National (1861)
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| Coordinates: | 48° 23' 3.53" N 4° 29' 46.36" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 87.50 m | |
| clearance | 22.50 - 48.50 m | |
| pylon | pylon height | 70 m |
Materials
| pylons |
reinforced concrete
|
|---|---|
| truss |
steel
|
Chronology
| 1994 | First prize in the national lighting contest for monuments. |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Pont de Recouvrance is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river Penfeld. Opened on 17 July 1954, it was the largest[ clarification needed] vertical-lift bridge in Europe until the opening of the Rouen Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2008. It links the bottom of the rue de Siam to the quartier de Recouvrance, replacing a swing bridge (the pont National) destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944.
Each pylon is 70m high, and the 525-tonne lift span is 88m long.
Trolley bus
The bridge was crossed by trolleybuses from its opening in 1954 until the closure of the Brest trolleybus system, in 1970.
Trams
The lift span was renovated in 2011 to allow the new tram line to cross the bridge. The tram line opened by July 2012.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Pont de Recouvrance" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1955): La construction du pont levant de Brest. Pont de la Recouvrance. In: Travaux, n. 243 (January 1955), pp. 5.
- (2001): Les plus beaux ponts de France. Bonneton, Paris (France), pp. 94, 96.
- (1984): Ponts de France. Presses Ponts et chaussées, Paris (France), pp. 252-253.
- (1951): Le projet du nouveau pont mobile de Brest. In: Travaux, n. 198 (April 1951), pp. 316.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20002932 - Published on:
09/02/2002 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
