Danube Bridge Krems

Danube Bridge Krems
	Danube Bridge Krems (2018)
Official name	St. Pölten Bridge
use	Road, bicycle and pedestrian bridges
Convicted	Kremser Strasse (B37)
Crossing of	Donau Straße (B3) ; Stockerauer Schnellstraße ; Donau
place	Krems at the Donau
construction	Steel girder bridge
overall length	1078 m
width	25 m
Longest span	170 m
vehicles per day	30,000 (2010)
opening	1971
	location

48.40338 15.624962Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 12 ″ N , 15 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ E

The Danube Bridge Krems (officially called St. Pöltner Bridge ) connects the town of Krems , located in Lower Austria on the north bank of the Danube , with St. Pölten, 30 km further south .

location

The bridge leads the Kremser Straße (B37) over the Danube. After the Krems-Mitte junction , it first crosses Donau Straße (B3) or Stockerauer Schnellstraße (S5). On the south side of the Danube, it connects to the Krems-Süd junction , which lies on the edge of the floodplain belonging to Furth near Göttweig and forms the beginning of Aggsteiner Straße (B33).

The Danube bridge Krems is at river kilometer 1999.77. The next bridges upstream are the Krems railway bridge at kilometer 2001.51 and the Mauterner bridge at kilometer 2003.53. Downstream the Danube bridge Traismauer stands at kilometer 1991.35.

description

The Danube Bridge Krems is a total of 1078 m long and 25 m wide. It has two lanes each, which are separated from each other and from the wide sidewalks and cycle paths by guardrails . From the two pillars on the bank, open stairwells lead down to the stairway paths. A steel sculpture stands on the northern staircase; Below it is a plaque commemorating the naming of the St. Pölten Bridge in the millennium year of the city of Krems in 1995.

The bridge was originally lit, but in 2016 the lights were turned off and later the difficult-to-maintain light poles were removed.

The main bridge over the Danube consists of a 458 m long steel girder bridge with slightly haunched solid wall girders and 4 openings with pillar spacing of 84 + 120 + 170 + 84 m. The concrete pillars are clad with natural stone. The northern, 210 m long and the southern, 410 m long approach bridges are prestressed concrete - T-beam bridges .

The bridge has a passage opening for downhill and uphill journeys with a width of 111 m and a height of 8.25 m above HWS 2010 (highest water level) for shipping.

Until the opening of the Danube bridge Traismauer , built in 2010 as a bypass for Krems, the Krems expressway led over this bridge, which is why it was constructed like a motorway bridge in the 1970s. Despite the new bridge near Traismauer, the Kremser Danube Bridge is still one of the most important north-south connections in eastern Austria, as it is the only high-level road bridge into the Waldviertel .