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General Information

Other name(s): Saale-Elster-Talbrücke
Beginning of works: 2006
Completion: 2013
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , , ,
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Crosses:
  • Saale River
  • Weisse Elster River
Part of:
Coordinates: 51° 25' 7.82" N    12° 1' 25.85" E
Coordinates: 51° 25' 22.68" N    11° 59' 16.93" E
Coordinates: 51° 24' 16.95" N    11° 56' 3.60" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

total length 8 890 m
height above valley floor or water ca. 15 m
arch arch span ca. 110 m
deck number of tracks 2 - 4
main bridge
length 6 465 m

Materials

deck prestressed concrete
arch steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Saale-Elster Viaduct is a railway bridge along the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway in Central Germany. It was completed in 2013 and opened in 2015. The viaduct is 6,465 metres (21,211 ft) long and thereby the longest bridge in Germany and the longest high-speed rail bridge in Europe. It includes a branch of 2,112 metres (6,929 ft) length.

The prestressed concrete box girder bridge carries a Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express (ICE) line over the extended floodplain at the confluence of the Saale and White Elster rivers, a natural habitat of wild fauna and flora south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. The branch provides a connection to the parallel Halle–Bebra railway line.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Saale-Elster Viaduct" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20017804
  • Published on:
    16/09/2005
  • Last updated on:
    21/08/2021
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