Jörg Haider Bridge

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bridge with the old Draubrücke in the foreground

The Jörg Haider Bridge (formerly Lippitzbachbrücke ) is a road bridge over the Drau in southern Carinthia . The bridge on the Lippitzbacher Landesstraße L127 connects the southern Carinthian town of Bleiburg and the region around the Petzen ski area with the southern motorway (A2), a European road axis that connects Vienna and Italy .

history

On December 11, 2005, the bridge was officially opened in the presence of the then governor Jörg Haider . The traffic was opened a day later. It was originally named after the small town of Lippitzbach (municipality of Ruden ) on the Drau. During the construction of the bridge, a section in the color orange was applied to the concrete ceiling, the party color of the then new political party BZÖ . On January 25, 2009 the bridge was renamed Jörg Haider Bridge by Governor Dörfler in memory of Jörg Haider. One week after the bridge was renamed, the signs for the Jörg Haider Bridge were stolen.

The Jörg Haider Bridge including the reassembled signs with a view of the Petzen

Technical specifications

The bridge has a maximum height of 96 m and a length of 455 m. The width is 12.85 meters, of which 2.5 meters are bike path. 18,500 cubic meters of concrete and 2,000 tons of steel were used. Despite the height, the construction went smoothly and without accidents. After a construction period of 20 months, the bridge was opened to traffic six months before the planned completion date.

John of Nepomuk

Photo-request.svg
 Image wanted 
BW

In the middle of the bridge a two and a half meter high bronze statue of St. John of Nepomuk , the patron saint of the bridge, was placed.

Iron truss bridge (old bridge)

Old Lippitzbach Bridge after it was blown up in winter 1918/1919

The old bridge ( ) was planned by Josef Clementschitsch and built in 1895/96. The iron construction comes from the Ignaz Gridl bridge construction company . In the course of the defensive battle it was blown up in the winter of 1918/19, but restored in 1921. It consists of parabolic girders on brick abutments and central pillars; because of the Schwabegger reservoir it was raised twice. In 1995 it was restored. The northern, almost unchanged part of the bridge is under monument protection ( list entry ). World icon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ORF Carinthia January 25, 2009: "Jörg Haider Bridge" is becoming a reality today
  2. ^ ORF Carinthia February 2, 2009: Name tags stolen from Haider Bridge
  3. ↑ www.lippitzbach.at: Neue Draubrücke (detailed construction history with photos of the construction)
  4. ^ ORF Carinthia December 11, 2005: Lippitzbachbrücke opened
  5. ↑ The Gridlbrücke. In: https://www.lippitzbach.at . Retrieved June 13, 2020 (historical photos).
  6. ^ Monument protection Lippitzbachbrücke: demolition impossible? In: Kronen Zeitung . March 5, 2020, accessed March 9, 2020 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 58.7 "  N , 14 ° 46 ′ 33.8"  E