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General Information

Beginning of works: 1976
Completion: 1980
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , ,
Crosses:
  • Rhine River
Next to: Deutzer Brücke (1948)
Coordinates: 50° 56' 10.56" N    6° 57' 57.24" E
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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 22 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20000177
  • Published on:
    28/04/1999
  • Last updated on:
    05/02/2016
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