Geesthacht Elbe Bridge
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 11 ″ E
 Geesthacht Elbe Bridge
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| Convicted | Federal highway 404 | |
| place | Geesthacht | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| Longest span | 55 m | |
| completion | 1966 | |
| opening | September 1966 | |
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The Elbe bridge Geesthacht is one of two existing fixed Elbe crossings between the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein . It is located southwest of the city of Geesthacht .
The Elbe bridge near Geesthacht is a road bridge in the course of the north-south connection B 404, which is very important for Schleswig-Holstein . The latter will gradually be upgraded to the A 21 . In the southern part of the state, the B 404 also fulfills the function of a further eastern bypass of Hamburg . The Elbe bridge Geesthacht is the younger of the two Elbe bridges between the federal states after the Elbe bridge Lauenburg and was only built as a girder bridge on the barrage of the Elbe after 1960 .
When the barrage was built, a road bridge was already planned over the weir. The river pillars were erected so wide that they could be used to build a bridge. These measures had been paid for in advance by the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. After the great storm surge of 1962 , an additional bridge over the Elbe above Hamburg proved necessary again, as the areas north of the Elbe were only connected to the rest of the Federal Republic via the road bridge, which was overloaded during the flood disaster, and a railroad track near Lauenburg . The structure should connect the federal highway 5 in Schleswig-Holstein with the federal highway 4 in Lower Saxony. The construction work was put out to tender in autumn 1963 . The new Elbe crossing was inaugurated on September 14, 1966.
The Elbe crossing consists of a 175-meter-long bridge over the lock canal, an approximately 550-meter-long dam section and the 409.5-meter-long weir bridge to cross the actual Elbe river. On the Lower Saxony side, a 237 meter long foreland bridge and a dam are connected.
The weir bridge has a steel superstructure with eight openings and the continuous beam as a structural system. The spans are 50.0 m, 4 × 55.0 m, 52.5 m, 50.0 m and 37.5 m with a construction height of 2.05 m. In the transverse direction, the main girder is a single-cell, trapezoidal box girder with a 16.2 m wide orthotropic deck . The side members are arranged at a distance of 6.0 m.
The lock bridge has a prestressed concrete superstructure with six openings and the continuous beam as a structural system. The spans are 23.75 m, 4 × 30.7 m and 28.45 m with a construction height of 1.6 m. In the transverse direction, the cross-section consists of two single-cell, trapezoidal hollow boxes with a center distance of 7.5 m and a 16.0 m wide deck.
South of the bridge, the B 404 joins the Handorf junction of the A 39 . Especially for this, the B 404 was extended from its former end point (confluence with the B 4 ). Between its new end to Rönne shortly before the Elbe bridge over the Elbe at the barrage, it has been developed without intersections and is designated as a motor road.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New Elbe Bridge near Geesthacht - Hamburger Abendblatt, April 6, 1962.
- ^ Elbe bridge inaugurated - Hamburger Abendblatt, September 14, 1966.
- ↑ a b Erich Fiedler: Road bridges over the Elbe. Saxoprint, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-9808879-6-0 , pp. 191-195.
| upstream | Bridges over the Elbe | downstream |
| Lauenburg bridge over the Elbe | Geesthacht Elbe Bridge |
Hamburg Elbe bridges |