Kylltal Bridge

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 11 ″  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 29 ″  E

A60 Kylltal Bridge
Kylltal Bridge
of Wilsecker seen from
Convicted Federal motorway 60
Crossing of Kyll
place Bitburg
construction Reinforced concrete arch bridge
overall length 645 m
width 2 × 15 m
Longest span 223 m
Construction height 1.5 m / 1.8 m
height 93 m
building-costs 75 million DM
start of building 1995
completion 1999
location
Kylltal Bridge (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Kylltal Bridge

The Kylltalbrücke with 223 m span the largest reinforced concrete arch bridge in Germany, the entirely of reinforced concrete or prestressed concrete is.

The motorway bridge is located on the A 60 in the Eifel near Wilsecker between the Bitburg and bath junctions and was built between 1995 and 1999. It spans the valley of the Kyll with a total length of 645 m at a maximum height of 93 m above ground .

superstructure

Kylltal Bridge

The two-part prestressed superstructure , each 15 m wide, has a total length of 645 m. It has the cross-section of a single-bar girder with a height of 1.5 m in the area of ​​the arch, in the other sections it is 1.8 m. The field widths of the 18-field superstructure are 30 m - 5 × 40 m - (3 × 34 m - 33 m - 3 × 34 m) - 3 × 40 m - 30 m - 28 m.

Substructure

In the middle of the bridge, the two superstructures will each be demolished by a reinforced concrete arch with a span of 223 m. These are roughly parabolic in shape. The arch width is 7 m, the thickness 3.5 m at the transom and 1.5 m at the top. The arch was constructed using a cantilever with auxiliary guy lines.

The pillars outside the arch are a maximum of 47 m high, with a width of 6.0 m they are 2.0 m thick.

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