Leunabrücke

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 43"  E

Leunabrücke
from the highest castle tower
use	Road bridge
Crossing of	Main
place	Höchst , Schwanheim
construction	Prestressed concrete - deck bridge
overall length	424 m
Headroom	9.35 m
completion	1994
location

The Leunabrücke is a road bridge in Frankfurt am Main that was completed in 1994 . It leads across the Main and connects Leunastraße in Frankfurt's Höchst district with Schwanheimer Unterfeld at Main km 24.310 . The construction of a "[...] bridge over the Main sufficiently wide for trams, large-scale car and vehicle traffic as well as pedestrian traffic [...]" had already been contractually guaranteed when the town of Höchst was incorporated in 1928, but did not take place until more than 60 years later.

From its construction until 2007 , the two-lane prestressed concrete bridge was only the entrance to a car park for employees of the Höchst Industrial Park . It was therefore popularly known as the “So-Da” bridge , because it simply stood “so there”. The connection road in the direction of Schwanheim or the airport was not built when the bridge was built due to political disputes about the project, as it was supposed to run through parts of the Schwanheimer Düne nature reserve .

Later, however, a plan with a slightly modified route was approved, which should connect the bridge to the federal highway 40a on the Schwanheimer Main side. The construction of the road, which was partly led through a tunnel, began on September 18, 2006, and traffic was handed over on October 12, 2007.

The traffic planners expect a daily traffic volume of around 15,000 vehicles. Further plans envisage a tour of the regional bypass west over the bridge. A 380 meter long connection of the road to the Schwanheimer junction and thus the airport is still being discussed, but is not planned for the time being (as of Oct. 2007).

With the new road construction, the previous through traffic to and from Nied and Griesheim is to be kept out of the Höchst city center. In this context, at the same time as the opening of the street, the traffic lights in Höchst were changed in order to direct the traffic that had previously run from Leunastraße through Emmerich-Josef-Straße and Bolongarostraße towards Nied to the new street. A traffic census in summer 2008 showed, however, that the bypass is not widely accepted, so that Dalbergplatz continues to be exposed to heavy traffic.

The bridge has been integrated into the local public transport network since 2003, and initially the route ran across the parking lot of the industrial park. The bus line 58 has a regular connection Hoechst to the Terminal 1 of the airport . To the south of the Main, the route runs along a private road in the industrial park that is not open to public traffic .

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 36 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
2. ↑ § 12, Paragraph 3, Incorporation Agreement of 1928 (PDF, 88 kB)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Frankfurter Rundschau and Höchster Kreisblatt from October 12, 2007
4. ↑ Höchst Kreisblatt dated August 23, 2008: The car-free bypass.
5. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of August 26, 2008: Quiet on Leunastraße. Höchst: Too few drivers have used the bypass in the direction of Griesheim: