The Flehe Bridge, is a single tower
cable stayed bridge
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over the
Rhine
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near
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...
.
It connects the
A 46 motorway from the left bank of the Rhine (
Neuss
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,
Aachen
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,
Heinsberg
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district, the
Netherlands
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) with the
Bergisches Land
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on the right bank (
Wuppertal
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,
Solingen
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,
Hagen
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) and the south of Düsseldorf. At the same time it forms the southern part of the motorway ring around Düsseldorf. It includes pedestrian and cycle paths.
The bridge opened in 1979
and relieved transit traffic south of Düsseldorf on the
South Bridge (
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), which were the only southern access from the left bank of the Rhine to Düsseldorf. It also connected the A 46 with the
A 57. The Flehe Bridge has three vehicle lanes and a
hard shoulder
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in each direction. The bridge does not cross the Rhine at right angles, in order to preserve the area of water procurement of the old water company Flehe. A remarkable feature of the Flehe bridge is the reinforced concrete suspension tower shaped like an inverted Y. In the handles of the pylons an elevator and stairs are accommodated above the roadway. The handles are in the longitudinal direction of the bridge only broad. They were manufactured with a climbing formwork. The 13-section foreland bridge is a prestressed concrete construction work with a construction height of and a total span of = . Nine sections comprise two single-cell hollow boxes with ever broad base plate. The remaining four sections within the range of the bridge removing possess a 5-cell box cross-section with base plate width of . A structural steelwork has the river opening stretching far as if cover.
See also
*
List of bridges in Germany
This list of bridges in Germany lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
Historical and architectural interest bridges
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References
External links
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Flehe Bridge at structurae.de
Cable-stayed bridges in Germany
Road bridges in Germany
Bridges completed in 1979
Bridges over the Rhine
Buildings and structures in Düsseldorf
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