Flehe Bridge

Template:Short description Template:Template other The Flehe Bridge, is a single tower cable stayed bridge over the Rhine near Düsseldorf. It connects the A 46 motorway from the left bank of the Rhine (Neuss, Aachen, Heinsberg district, the Netherlands) with the Bergisches Land on the right bank (Wuppertal, Solingen, Hagen) 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 (B 1), 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 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

External links

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• Flehe Bridge at structurae.de

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