The New Fetsund Bridge ( no, Fetsund nye bru) is a road bridge on

Norwegian National Road 22 Riksvei 22 (Rv22) runs between Hvam in Skedsmo and Øra in Fredrikstad. The road is 117.3 km, of which 35.8 km is in Akershus and 81.5 km in Østfold. Route Route: Hvam - Kjeller - Lillestrøm - Vinsnes - Fetsund, crossing Glom ...

that crosses the

Glomma The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway's longest and most voluminous river. With a total length of , it has a drainage basin that covers fully 13% of Norway's surface area, all in the southern part of the country. Geography At its fullest length, the ...

River at

Fetsund Fetsund forms the center of the municipality Lillestrøm Viken, Norway. The name comes from the local geography, ''Fet'' means "where water meets grass". As for the ''-sund'' part, it simply means 'strait, inlet'. Accordingly, Fetsund is located a ...

in the municipality of

Fet The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs contr ...

Viken county Viken may refer to: *Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region *Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020 *Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden *Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta cana ...

, Norway. It is long, and its longest span measures . Construction on the new road bridge began in 1954, and it was opened by

King Olav V Olav V (; born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was the King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was the only child of King Haakon VII of Norway and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Norw ...

on December 12, 1959. The bridge stands a few hundred meters downstream from the

Fetsund Bridge The Fetsund Bridge ( no, Fetsund bru) refers to two bridges: a road bridge and a railway bridge that cross the Glomma River at Fetsund in the municipality of Fet in Viken county, Norway. The first bridge, a wooden structure, was built in 1860 f ...

, which was previously a combined road and rail bridge. There was long a need for the new bridge because the old bridge was built for an axle load of barely three tons. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration carried out a feasibility study for building a new road bridge in Fetsund in 2012.

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Brubygging over Glomma
at Kulturnett Akershus Road bridges in Viken Roads in Fet Bridges completed in 1959 1959 establishments in Norway