Aggersundbroen

Coordinates: 56 ° 59 ′ 58 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 38 ″  E

Aggersundbroen
use	Primærrute trunk road 29
Crossing of	Aggersund in the Limfjord
place	Aggersund and Løgstør in Vesthimmerlands Municipality
Entertained by	Vejdirektoratet
construction	Arch bridge
overall length	228 meters
width	10.4 meters
Clear width	30 meters
vehicles per day	7004 (Stand 2012)
start of building	1939
completion	1942
opening	June 18, 1942
location

Aggersundbroen ( Danish for "the Aggersund Bridge") is an arched and bascule bridge in northern Denmark , which leads over the Limfjord . The bridge is located in the Vesthimmerland municipality and connects the Himmerland peninsula with the North Jutian island of Vendsyssel-Thy . When it was completed in 1942, it replaced the ferry connection between the north of Løgstør and Aggersund . The Primærrute 29 trunk road runs on the two-lane road bridge , which runs from Hobro to Hanstholm and is used there by around 6,900 vehicles every day (as of 2011).

Between the two bridge arches there are two flaps that can be opened by the bridge personnel for ship traffic. The ships, most of which go to and from Aalborg , have a passage width of 30 meters.

history

Løgstør citizens took the initiative to plan a bridge over the Aggersund in the 1920s. A committee made proposals for a fixed link. However, disagreement about the route and a lack of funding prevented further planning. Only after a visit by the Minister for Public Works , Niels Peder Fisker , in 1936 did the planning process move forward again. After the design for today's bridge was approved in 1938, construction began a year later.

The offices of Aalborg , Hjørring and Thisted , which were affected by traffic , contributed to the financing, as an inscription on two transoms under the bridge arches reminds of. When the bridge was inaugurated on June 18, 1942, armed soldiers from the German occupying forces were present. The occupiers built bunkers on the southern side in order to militarily secure the bridge and traffic from there. Some of these bunkers have survived to this day.

See also

• List of bridges in Denmark

Web links

• Henrik Lange: Portræt af Aggersundbroen. In: Highways.dk. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 (Danish). 
• Literature list ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Denmark's Road and Bridge Museum (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Henrik Lange: Portræt af Aggersundbroen. In: Highways.dk. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 (Danish). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Vejdirektoratet : Trafikken på centrale vejstrækninger 2012.xls (Excel file, Jylland worksheet; 99 kB) , accessed on February 28, 2013 (Danish)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Henrik Lange: Portræt af Aggersundbroen. In: Highways.dk. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 (Danish).