The Neckar Viaduct at Weitingen is a

bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

that crosses the valley of the River Neckar, near the town

Horb am Neckar Horb am Neckar is a town in the southwest of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river, between Offenburg to the west (about away) and Tübingen to the east (about away). It has around 25,000 inhabitants, of whom ...

. 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 bridge deck amounts to 31.5 meters.

Construction

The structure is a steel box girder, which is 10 meters wide and 6.10 meters tall. A characteristic are the approach spans, which are cable trussed beams, to avoid pylons in the valley slopes. The south span is 264 meters long.

History

The bridge was handed over to the public in 1978. Directly east of the bridge is a 110 kV

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, hung on high anchor masts 70 meters high, crosses the Neckar Valley from Eutingen to St. Georgen.

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