Europabrücke (Frankfurt am Main)

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  E

Europe Bridge
View from the southeast
Convicted	Federal motorway 5
Crossing of	Main
place	Frankfurt am Main
construction	Box girder bridge
overall length	313.3 meters
width	45.92 meters
Headroom	8.00 meters
vehicles per day	151,000
start of building	1974
completion	1978
opening	June 1978
location

The Europabrücke is a motorway bridge that spans the Main between the Frankfurt districts of Griesheim and Schwanheim . Over the girder bridge construction consisting of two superstructures , the BAB 5 is led to four lanes in each direction of travel.

On both banks of the Main, the Europabrücke is connected to the city with junctions ; North Main the junction Westhafen and south Main the junction Niederrad .

On the west side of the Europabrücke, a footbridge attached to the bridge for pedestrians and cyclists connects Griesheim with the Goldstein settlement .

history

Pedestrian and bicycle footbridge on the west side of the Europabrücke

The first plans for a motorway with a bridge over the Main near Griesheim go back to 1926, they were developed as part of HaFraBa . After Hitler , who originally rejected the construction of the motorway, recognized the importance of the HaFraBa project, he pushed ahead with the construction of the motorway. As early as 1934/35, a motorway bridge was built on the site of today's Europabrücke. This was a girder bridge made of steel with a trough cross-section for each lane. The maximum span of the five-span structure was 73 m in the current area. The bridge was blown up in the last days of the war , rebuilt in 1945/46 and inaugurated in April 1946.

Between 1974 and 1978 the motorway bridge near Griesheim was replaced by the current structure. The first superstructure was opened to traffic in September 1976, the inauguration of the entire bridge took place in June 1978.

The two superstructures consist of two-cell prestressed concrete hollow boxes with a width of 23 m each. The spans are 87.67 m, 128.30 m and 91.25 m. The construction height in the middle field is constant at 4.44 m and decreases in the peripheral fields to 3.80 m. The deck slab protrudes 3.75 m on both sides. The center opening was in cantilever built the side openings with falsework.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manual traffic counting BAB 2015. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on July 11, 2018 .  (PDF file; 336 kB)

literature

• Wolfram Gorr: Frankfurt bridges. Locks, ferries, tunnels and bridges of the Main. Frankfurt am Main 1982: Frankfurter Societät. ISBN 3-7973-0393-9

Web links

Commons : Europabrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Europabrücke (Frankfurt am Main). In: Structurae