The Theodor Heuss Bridge also known as the Nordbrücke (North bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the

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Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

built from 1953 to 1957 with a main span of flanked on either side by spans of . It was the first cable-stayed bridge built in Germany. Along with two other cable-stayed bridges to the south, the Oberkassel Bridge and the

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, the Theodor Heuss Bridge forms the central leg of Düsseldorf's family of bridges over the Rhine. The bridge carries Bundesstraße 7, downtown connector to Autobahn 52. Growing traffic volume in the bridge relaxed in May 2002 due to the opening of the

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to the north.

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