Airport bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 42 ′ 18 ″ E
 Airport bridge
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| Convicted | Federal motorway 44 | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Düsseldorf / Meerbusch | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 1286.5 meters | |
| width | 38.5 meters | |
| Longest span | 287.5 meters | |
| vehicles per day | 64,000 (2010) | |
| building-costs | 160 million DM | |
| opening | June 3, 2002 | |
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The Airport Bridge is a motorway bridge of the A44 over the Rhine in Dusseldorf and Meerbusch . It was opened in 2002 and, together with the two motorway tunnels on the left bank of the Rhine, is also known as the Ilverich crossing of the Rhine .
technology
With a span of 287.5 m, a cable-stayed bridge would have required approx. 110 m high pylons , which, however, were not permitted as an obstacle to air traffic because of the proximity to Düsseldorf Airport . It therefore has two particularly low (34 meters) longitudinally set up V-shaped stems in the middle between the two directional lanes , which are connected at the tips by crossbars and look like triangles standing on the tip. This achieves a cable arrangement that comes somewhat close to the usual one.
The bridge has six lanes , two hard shoulder and combined pedestrian and cycle paths on both sides. The latter can be reached via entrances on both banks of the Rhine.
The 1286.5 meter long structure has 17 openings with bay widths of 7 × 63.0 m - 287.5 m - 8 × 63.0 m - 54.0 m.
construction
The bridge was completed in 2002 after four years of construction as part of closing the gap in the A 44 motorway between Meerbusch ( Ilverich ) on the left bank of the Rhine and the north of Düsseldorf ( Lohausen ) on the right bank of the Rhine . The bridge creates a connection to the motorways to Mönchengladbach , Aachen and Belgium and the Netherlands . Among other things, it improved the connection between the airport, the trade fair and the then Rheinstadion and its successor to the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. In addition, it contributed to the relief of two bridges upstream ( Theodor-Heuss-Brücke and Rheinkniebrücke ) and one bridge downstream ( Krefeld-Uerdinger Bridge between Krefeld-Uerdingen and Duisburg-Mündelheim ).
The Langst – Kaiserswerth Rhine ferry, about 3 km downstream, lost its importance due to the airport bridge; it has been used almost exclusively by day trippers since 2002.
The construction of the airport bridge was controversial for years because of the route through the Ilverich Altrheinschlinge .
Naming
The name “Niederrheinbrücke”, which was requested by the majority of the population in a competition, was not approved by the Federal Ministry of Transport responsible for naming it . The bridge was named after the nearby Düsseldorf airport. From the end of 2008 efforts were made to rename the bridge after the late Mayor of Düsseldorf Joachim Erwin (CDU). The then North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Oliver Wittke (CDU) supported the renaming; From Meerbusch's side came the objection that only one end of the bridge was in Düsseldorf territory and that it was inappropriate for the Düsseldorfers to "mentally incorporate" the entire bridge. Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) signaled that he did not want to stand in the way of renaming the airport bridge. On March 25, 2009, Wittke's successor Lutz Lienenkämper decided that the airport bridge should not be renamed.
See also
literature
- Federal Ministry of Transport: bridges on federal roads 2002 . Verkehrblatt-Verlag, Dortmund, ISBN 3-935064-15-2
Web links
- Airport bridge. In: Structurae
- The airport bridge near Meerbusch
- Oliver Keymis, Member of the State Parliament: The long dispute over the A 44 Rhine crossing is over.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010 of the BVM ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Holger Svensson: Cable-stayed bridges. 40 years of experience worldwide . Ernst & Sohn, Weinheim 2011, p. 20
- ↑ Airport bridge on tobien.de
- ↑ Dispute over the "Erwin Bridge" . ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rheinische Post Online, January 14, 2009
- ↑ Renaming: Clear the way for Joachim-Erwin Bridge . ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rheinische Post Online, December 23, 2008
- ↑ Rheinische Post Online ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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The next bridge up the river: Theodor-Heuss-Brücke (Düsseldorf) |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Krefeld-Uerdinger Bridge |