Gazela (bridge)
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ N , 20 ° 26 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Convicted | E75 | |
| Crossing of | Save | |
| place | Belgrade | |
| construction | steel truss bridge | |
| overall length | 469.60 m (main bridge) | |
| width | 28.15 m | |
| start of building | 1966 | |
| opening | 1970 | |
| planner | Milan Đurić | |
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The Gazela ( Serbian - Cyrillic Газела , German Gazelle ) is the most important road bridge over the Sava in the Serbian capital Belgrade . It is part of the city motorway , which is also part of the European route 75 .
Its name is traced back to a comment by Đorđe Lazarević, chairman of the competition jury, that the bridge crosses the Sava like a leaping gazelle. The name was already adopted by the media during the construction period.
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The bridge was constructed between 1962 and 1963 by a team of engineers led by Milan Đurić , a professor at the University of Belgrade , and executed by the Mostogradnja company between 1966 and 1970 .
The six-lane main bridge over the Save will continue on the left, western side as an elevated road to the distributor at the Sava Centar or the crossing of the large cross street Vladimira Popvica. On the right, eastern side, it ends at the Mostar distributor with the overpass of Bulvar vojvode Putnika.
The main bridge, 469.60 m long and 28.15 m wide, painted red, consists of the 332.0 m long river bridge and two 68.8 m long approach bridges. The river bridge has two steel, rectangular, haunched hollow girders , which are connected by a series of cross and diagonal struts. The pavement beam essentially consists of an orthotropic plate . The hollow girders are supported by inclined struts that form an angle of 29 ° to the horizontal and are supported on abutments directly on the river's edge. Between the upper notches to accommodate these struts, which are also hollow steel girders , there is a support width of 250 m. The two approach bridges have solid wall girders on narrow steel supports.
Behind concrete dividing pillars, the elevated roads made of prestressed concrete hollow box structures are connected on both sides .
The bridge, originally designed for a traffic load of 40,000 vehicles per day, was used by well over 160,000 vehicles (before the Adabrücke opened in 2012). This drastically increased traffic load and inadequate maintenance led to serious damage. In the years 2011 to 2012, the bridge was finally renovated by the Austrian Strabag with a loan from the European Investment Bank . Before the renovation, the slum of Beograd Gazela under the bridge had to be cleared and its predominantly Roma residents had to be resettled in a program demanded by the EIB and prepared for years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Gazela Bridge on YU-build.com
- ↑ Aleksandar Bojuvić, Navak Yelović: Rehabilitation of the Gazelle Road Bridge in Belgrade . In: E. Petzek, R. Băncilă (Eds.): The Eight International Conference “Bridges in Danube Basin” . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2014, p. 129-138 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-03714-7_8 . (with plan sketch)
- ^ Gazela Bridge on the website of FCP - Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH, Vienna
- ↑ According to Google Earth, both high bridges are about 550 m long. The lengths specified by FCP of 1384 m for the western and 2145 m for the eastern elevated road seem to designate the contractual construction area including all further roads.
- ↑ Gazela Bridge, Serbia on irl.sika.com
- ↑ Repair of the Gazela Bridge. Press release from January 11, 2011 on eib.org
- ↑ STRABAG wins EUR 58 million contract for the renovation of the Gazella Bridge in Belgrade on strabag.com
