Josef-Cardinal-Frings-Bridge

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Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 55 ″  E

Bundesstrasse 1 Josef-Cardinal-Frings-Bridge
Josef-Cardinal-Frings-Bridge
use Road bridge
Convicted Bundesstrasse 1
Crossing of Rhine
place Düsseldorf - Hamm - Neuss - Hammfeld
construction Steel box girder bridge
overall length 780 meters
width 30 meters
Longest span 206 meters
completion 1951
location
Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Bridge (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Josef-Cardinal-Frings-Bridge

The Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke is a bridge over the Rhine between Düsseldorf and Neuss, built in 1950–51 .

The bridge, inaugurated on November 17, 1951, is part of Bundesstraße 1 and is heavily used at rush hour, as it takes up part of the commuter traffic between Düsseldorf and Neuss and serves as a feeder for Bundesautobahn 57 . Until the Fleher Bridge was built, it was the southernmost of the Düsseldorf Rhine bridges. The steel bridge differs from the other Düsseldorf Rhine bridges in its light green color and flat appearance, which goes back to the box shape and the welding technology used for the first time . The bridge has one lane with two lanes for both directions of travel . Between the lanes there are two tram tracks for line 709 between the terminus Gerresheim Krankenhaus and Neuss , Theodor-Heuss-Platz . Outside there is a combined foot and bike path on both sides.

Naming

Since June 24, 2006 the bridge has been named after the former Archbishop of Cologne, Joseph Cardinal Frings , who was born in Neuss . Before that it was officially called Rheinbrücke Düsseldorf – Neuss , but was mostly only briefly called Südbrücke in Düsseldorf . Ten years later, the renaming had not caught on in the local population. Even the press continues to use the name Südbrücke, especially in headings, in addition to the official name .

Predecessor bridge

At the end of the 1920s a bridge was built on the same site and opened to traffic on November 12, 1929. Düsseldorf Neusser Bridge Construction and Operating Company Düsseldorf was founded to build and maintain the south bridge . The road bridge built for the emerging car traffic also had tracks for the tram connection between Düsseldorf and Neuss. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , it was blown up on March 3, 1945 by units of the Wehrmacht to make it more difficult for the Allied forces to cross the Rhine.

Web links

Commons : Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Josef Cardinal Frings Society in Neuss am Rhein. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.halfpapp.de/bruecken/historische-fotos-von-rheinbruecken/rheinbrucke-dusseldorf-neuss-vor-1945/
  3. ↑ http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662013878
  4. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301213221_Das_Werden_der_Rheinbrucke_Dusseldorf-Neuss
  5. ^ In: Express Online, report from December 16, 2015 . Comments on official renaming
  6. ↑ In: RP Online from March 18, 2016 . Südbrücke is closed until Monday
  7. ^ In: Budget (of the state capital Düsseldorf), Section V. Technology . 1937, p. [210] 218.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In all municipal publications of the city of Düsseldorf (budgets and administrative reports), both before 1945 and afterwards up to the renaming, the bridge is referred to as the " Südbrücke " (evidence: Administrative report 1928, p. [259] 342 and Budget 1996, p . [176] 154)

Web links

The next bridge upstream:
Fleher Bridge 		Bridges over the Rhine The next bridge downstream:
Hammer Eisenbahnbrücke