The Theodor Heuss Bridge also known as the Nordbrücke (North bridge) is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

over the

Rhine River The Rhine ( ) is one of the major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Swiss-Austrian border. From Lake Cons ...

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 ...

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

Knie Bridge Knie is a German language surname. It is a nickname for a person with a protruding knee – and may refer to: * Roberta Knie (1938–2017), American dramatic soprano *Rolf Knie Rolf Knie (born 16 August 1949 in Bern) is a Swiss painter Pa ...

, 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 Airport Bridge to the north.

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* Cable-stayed bridges in Germany Road bridges in Germany Bridges completed in 1957 Bridges over the Rhine Buildings and structures in Düsseldorf Bridges in North Rhine-Westphalia Theodor Heuss {{Germany-bridge-struct-stub

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