The Kjøllsæter Bridge ( no, Kjøllsæterbrua) is a long wooden
deck truss bridge that crosses the river
Renaelva
The Rena or Renaelva is a river in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through Rendalen and Åmot municipalities in Innlandet county. This river is a tributary of the large river Glomma. Kjøllsæter Bridge connects the east and west s ...
in
Åmot Municipality
Åmot is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena. Other villages in the municipality include Åsta, Osneset, a ...
in
Innlandet
Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...
county,
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 ...
. The bridge lies just northeast of the village of
Rena and it connects two large military training areas that are part of the
Rena Camp military base. It also gives the people living in Rød area a better road connection across the river. The clearance to the water is .
The bridge was built to carry military vehicles and equipment such as
tank gun
A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can also ...
s and other heavy machines. The bridge was built to meet the
NATO
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standards and it will carry up to on a span of . The Kjøllsæter Bridge is one of the strongest wooden bridges in the world.
The Kjøllsæter bridge was opened 17 August 2006. Its total cost reached equivalent at the time to about US$6 million.
References
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Bridges in Innlandet
Bridges completed in 2006
Åmot