Konrad-Adenauer-Bridge (Bonn)
The Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke is the southern of the three Rhine bridges in Bonn (south bridge) and connects the south of the city with Ramersdorf and the southern Beuel on the right bank of the Rhine on both sides of the federal quarter . It spans the Rhine and the foreland with eight fields and has a total length of 770 m. The A 562 motorway , tram lines 66 and 68, as well as a pedestrian and cycle path on both sides run over the 39.20 m wide superstructure .
location
The Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke is at 651.3 km on the Rhine . It crosses the Rheinaue amusement park on the left bank of the Rhine and the Auensee lake in it and leads over to the part of the amusement park on the right bank of the Rhine. It connects both parts of the federal district as a former parliament and government district and is its main access axis for supraregional traffic. At the ends of the main bridge are the motorway exits Bonn-Rheinaue (on the left bank of the Rhine) and Bonn-Ramersdorf (formerly Bonn-Beuel-Süd ) (on the right bank of the Rhine).
Around this point in the Ramersdorf district there was a railway ferry between 1868 and 1919 ( Bonn – Oberkassel route ).
history
The bridge was built from 1967 to 1972 and opened to traffic on December 11, 1972 by the then Federal Transport Minister Lauritz Lauritzen . The structural planning was carried out by Hans Grassl, the architectural design by Gerd Lohmer . The river bridge is a girder bridge with a haunched , two-cell hollow box made of steel as a superstructure, which has a construction height of 9.25 m above the river pillars and 4.50 m in the middle of the field. The bay width of the main opening is 230 m, for the two side bays it is 125 m each.
The five-span foreland bridge on the left bank of the Rhine is made of prestressed concrete . It has spans of 50 m and 4 × 60 m.
In 1994, during a bridge test, considerable damage to the cup plain bearings was found. In order to be able to carry out the necessary repair work, the superstructure first had to be reinforced. A total of 70 tons of steel had to be installed before the bearings could be replaced. The repairs lasted from October 2003 to January 2005. In spring 2014 the road crossings were renewed.
Initially, the plan was to name the “Südbrücke” in analogy to the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (“Nordbrücke”), which was named after the first President of the German Empire, after Theodor Heuss , the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, since former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer died at the beginning of the construction work on the bridge in April 1967 and lived only a few kilometers up the Rhine in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf as an honored politician of the federal capital Bonn, the new "Südbrücke" was given its name.
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The next bridge upstream: Ludendorff Bridge (destroyed in 1945) Raiffeisen Bridge (Neuwied) |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Kennedy Bridge |
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 36 ″ E