Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge
Coordinates: 35 ° 20 ′ 42 ″ N , 40 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ E
| Suspension bridge of Deir ez-Zor جسر دير الزور المعلق |
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| use | footbridge | |
| Crossing of | Euphrates | |
| place | Deir ez-Zor , Syria | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge system Gisclard | |
| overall length | 460 m | |
| Longest span | 3 × 112 m | |
| completion | 1927 | |
| Status | destroyed | |
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The suspension bridge of Deir ez-Zor ( Arabic جسر دير الزور المعلق, DMG Ǧisr Dair az-Zawr al-muʿallaq ) was a pedestrian bridge over the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor in Syria .
It was generally referred to as a suspension bridge , but strictly speaking it was a cable-stayed bridge based on Albert Gisclard's system , which was further developed by Gaston Leinekugel Le Cocq after his death . The ropes stretched diagonally from the pylons to the other half of the bridge deck, which intersect just above the bridge deck and form the knot characteristic of the system, are characteristic . It should have been the last bridge of this type after the Pont de Lézardrieux .
The 460 m long bridge had four pylons , two of which are on the bank and two on small river islands. They formed three bridges of equal length with spans of 112 m each. The outer tips of the pylons were connected to each other by horizontal compensating cables ( câble d'équilibre ) to compensate for the influence of loads moving across the bridge.
The bridge was built in 1927 during the French mandate over Syria by the construction company Fougerolle and at that time it was the only bridge over the Euphrates in the village. After the construction of a modern road bridge 600 m downstream, it was only used as a pedestrian bridge.
The bridge was destroyed in the Syrian civil war in early May 2013.
