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Deir ez-Zur Suspension Bridge

General Information

Beginning of works: 1927
Completion: 1929
Status: destroyed (2 May 2013)

Project Type

Location

Location: , ,
Crosses:
  • Euphrates River
Coordinates: 35° 20' 41.85" N    40° 9' 4.05" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

total length 460 m
span lengths 34.62 m - 3 x 112.50 m - 34.62 m
number of spans 5

Materials

pylons reinforced concrete
piles reinforced concrete

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge (Arabic: جسر دير الزور المعلق‎) was a pedestrian suspension bridge crossing the Euphrates River, in the city of Deir ez-Zor in north-eastern Syria.

The former footbridge connected, across the Euphrates River, the Levant region and the main section of the city on the southern bank, with Upper Mesopotamia region and the eastern section of the city on the northern bank.

History

The iron/steel pedestrian bridge was built in 1927, by the French construction company Fougerolle (then-under Le Soliditit Françs), during the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon period (1920−1941).

The Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge was destroyed in May 2013, from shelling by the Assad Regime Forces (Syrian Army) forces during the Syrian Civil War, where they had destroyed all the bridges in the city to cut the supply way to the Free Syrian army.

After the suspension bridge was destroyed, the Siyasiyeh Bridge became the last entry route across the Euphrates to the western section of the city and the adjoining province of Hasakeh. However the locally renamed "bridge of death" was sufficiently dangerous to attacks that only one vehicle could speed across the bridge at a time during night time darkness. It was destroyed in the autumn of 2014, being blown up as a result of the battle between the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham and the Syrian Army.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20008120
  • Published on:
    11/02/2003
  • Last updated on:
    10/09/2023
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