The Düsseldorf Rhine Bridges

The dataset contains information on all bridges crossing the Rhine from Düsseldorf. The Joseph Cardinal-Frings Bridge is the new building in place of the bridge built in 1928/29 and destroyed in 1945. By Council decision of the City of Düsseldorf of 2 June 2005, the bridge in “Joseph-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke” (south bridge) was unnamed. The first railway bridge was built in 1868/70 on the site of the present Hammer Bridge and in 1909/12 it was replaced by two bridges with 2 tracks each. Both bridges were destroyed in 1945. One of the bridges was first rebuilt in the same year as a single track as an emergency bridge and in 1947 was constructed as a two-track railway bridge with the remaining remains of both old bridges on the lower current foundations. The current four-track bridge was put into operation on 10 April 1987. Today’s Oberkasseler Bridge is a new building for the first bridge built in 1896/98 and expanded in 1925/26. It was destroyed in 1945 and replaced by a temporary construction in 1948. The construction of the current bridge took place 47.50 m next to the Behelfs Bridge in a provisional location. After starting traffic on the new bridge — in both directions from 20 March 1974 — the temporary bridge was dismantled and the final substructures for the new bridge were built in its place. On April 7 and 8, 1976, the bridge was later shifted to its current position. The connections were built within three weeks, so that the bridge was opened for traffic on 30 April 1976. The Theodor-Heuss Bridge was opened for traffic in 1957 as the world’s first inclined rope bridge. In language, it is also called Nordbrücke, as it was called when it was released. The airport bridge was put into operation on 3 June 2002. The Fleher Bridge was commissioned in 1979. The Rhine Knee Bridge was put into operation in 1969. The file contains the following column information: Name of the bridge: Bridge name Type of bridge: Road dedication Location (electricity km): Rhine-kilometre stand System: Bridge construction Year of construction: Construction period Total bridge length in m: Length Maximum support distance over the current in m: Length between two support points in the longitudinal direction of bridge Steel weight of electricity superstructures in t: Weight