Grenland Bridge (in Norwegian ''Grenlandsbrua'') is

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

's highest cable-stayed bridge with a tower height of . The bridge, which opened in 1996, is on route E18. It crosses the

Frierfjord Frierfjorden is a fjord in the Grenland traditional district in the county of Telemark, Norway. It is an arm of the Langesundsfjord and well into the 1700s was also known as the Langesundsfjord. Frierfjorden stretches from the opening to Lange ...

, a fjord which separates the

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Porsgrunn is a city and municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn. The municipality of Porsgrunn was ...

and Bamble in

Vestfold og Telemark Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold. T ...

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

. When built, it replaced

Brevik Bridge Brevik Bridge (in Norwegian language, Norwegian ''Breviksbrua'') is one of two bridges that span the mouth of the Frierfjord. It connects the municipalities of Bamble and Porsgrunn in Vestfold og Telemark county. On the west side, in Bamble, lies ...

(''Breviksbrua'') as the primary route across the fjord. The bridge uses cable stayed construction to provide clearance for vessels up to in height. The stay cables are arranged in 21 cable pairs with lengths from . The bridge's span is . Stathelle og Brevik

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Grenland Bridge on en.Broer.no
Bridges in Vestfold og Telemark Buildings and structures in Porsgrunn Cable-stayed bridges in Norway Bridges completed in 1996 1996 establishments in Norway {{VestfoldTelemark-geo-stub