Border bridge over the Schönwalder Bach
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 59 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 55 ″ E
 Border bridge over the Schönwalder Bach
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| use | Highway bridge | |
| Convicted | Federal motorway 17 | |
| Crossing of | Schönwalder Bach | |
| construction | Composite steel bridge | |
| overall length | 412 m | |
| height | 57 m | |
| start of building | December 13, 2004 | |
| completion | October 2006 | |
| opening | December 21, 2006 | |
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The border bridge over the Schönwalder Bach is located in the Eastern Ore Mountains ( Saxony ) and is the motorway border bridge between Germany and the Czech Republic . It is located about three kilometers behind the Breitenau border crossing point on the German side of the A 17 , which continues in the Czech Republic as the D 8 in the direction of Prague.
location
Together with the Nasenbachtalbrücke and the Harthe landscape tunnel, the bridge forms a series of structures in the course of the federal motorway 17 in the previously untouched Saxon-Bohemian border area.
Establishment
The steel composite bridge , which runs a maximum of 57 meters above the valley floor, has six fields with spans of 54.8 meters + 4 × 73.0 meters + 58.4 meters and a total length of 412 meters. The cross-section of the two superstructures consists of a steel trough each with a reinforced concrete deck at a construction height of 3.65 meters. The production took place in incremental launching .
Construction work officially began on December 13, 2004 with the symbolic opening of a barrier on the German-Czech border on the road leading from the Saxon Harthewald to the Bohemian village of Schönwald Krásný Les v Krušných horách . It was completed in October 2006 by a Czech construction consortium led by Metrostav as . The cross-border motorway was opened on December 21, 2006.
The building owner of the border bridge was the Czech Ministry of Transport. Costs were also borne by the European Union and the German Ministry of Transport . The bridge is fully equipped and signposted in accordance with the Czech traffic regulations.
source
- Various newspaper articles from the Sächsische Zeitung