General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Box girder bridge Underslung girder bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Weitingen, Eutingen im Gäu, Freudenstadt (Kreis), Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
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| Crosses: |
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| Carries: |
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| Coordinates: | 48° 26' 55.03" N 8° 45' 56.70" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 263.00 m | |
| height | 127 m | |
| total length | 918 m | |
| deck | deck width | 31.50 m |
Materials
| deck |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Neckar Viaduct at Weitingen is a bridge that crosses the River Neckar, near the village Horb am Neckar. The bridge is an important part of motorway A81's section Stuttgart - Singen.
Characteristics
Measurements
The bridge has an overall length of 900 meters, spans of 234-134-134-134-264 meters and a height of 125 meters above ground. The width of the building of over amounts to 31.5 meters and consists of a 6.10 meters high steel hollow box, which is broad 10 meters down.
Construction
A characteristic are the fringing fields under-stretched with ropes, which possess a span of 264 meters on the south side. Hence this could be done without columns in the valley slopes.
History
The bridge was handed over to the public in 1978. Directly east of the bridge is a 110 kV power line, hung on high anchor masts 70 meters high, crosses the Neckar Valley from Eutingen to St.Georgen.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Neckar Viaduct, Weitingen" and modified on 22 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Participants
Owner
Client
Design
- Fritz Leonhardt (designer)
Architecture
- Hans Kammerer (architect)
Structural engineering
Checking engineering
Construction
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1994): Brücken / Bridges. Ästhetik und Gestaltung / Aesthetics and Design. 4th edition, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany), pp. 190-191.
- (2006): Brücken in Deutschland für Straßen und Wege. Der Fotobildband deutscher Brückenbaukunst. Deutscher Bundesverlag, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 978-3-935064-41-5, pp. 100-101.
- (1999): Ingenieurbauführer Baden-Württemberg. 1st edition, Bauwerk Verlag, Berlin (Germany), pp. 228-230.
- Longer life link. In: Bridge Design & Engineering, v. 9, n. 33 (4th Quarter 2003), pp. 74-75.
- Neckartalbrücke Weitingen. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung (1947-1978), v. 96, n. 42 (19 October 1978).
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000677 - Published on:
24/04/2000 - Last updated on:
29/02/2016
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