Saale-Elster Viaduct
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The Saale-Elster Viaduct is a railway bridge along the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany. It was completed in 2013 and opened in 2015. The viaduct is long and thereby the List of longest bridges, longest bridge in Germany and the longest high-speed rail bridge in Europe. It includes a branch of length. The prestressed concrete box girder bridge carries a Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express (ICE) line over the extended floodplain at the confluence of the Saale and White Elster rivers, a Habitats Directive, natural habitat of wild fauna and flora south of Halle (Saale), Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. The branch provides a connection to the parallel Halle–Bebra railway line.


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