Martinus Nijhoff Bridge

Martinus Nijhoffbrug
Official name	Martinus Nijhoffbrug
use	Road traffic
Convicted	Rijksweg 2 , ; bicycle and pedestrian path
Crossing of	Waal
place	Zaltbommel , ; Waardenburg ( West Betuwe municipality )
Entertained by	Rijkswaterstaat
construction	Cable-stayed bridge
overall length	988.42 m
width	38.84 m
Longest span	256 m
height	71.66 m
Headroom	17.50 m (for ships)
start of building	1993
completion	1996
opening	January 18, 1996
planner	Combinatie BVW
	location
Above sea level	3 m NAP

51.818272 5.260091 3Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 6 ″ N , 5 ° 15 ′ 36 ″ E

The Martinus-Nijhoff-Brücke ( Dutch: Martinus Nijhoffbrug ) spans the Waal , the southern arm of the Rhine in the Rhine-Maas Delta , between the Dutch municipalities of Zaltbommel and West Betuwe . Rijksweg 2 , one of the most important north-south connections in the Netherlands, as well as two pedestrian and bicycle paths, runs on the 990-meter-long cable-stayed bridge built between 1993 and 1996 . The structure, visible from afar, is located at Rhine kilometer 933.60 and kilometer 75.23 of the Dutch waterway 101 (Rhine – Waal– Boven-Merwede –Beneden-Merwede– Noord ).

The approach bridge has a length of 565.05 meters. The current bridge, supported by the symmetrical stay cable construction, measures 423.37 meters with a maximum span of 256 meters. The approach bridge is 34.38 meters wide, the river bridge 38.84 meters. 2 × 3 directional lanes with a width of 32.55 meters (including median ) are available for road traffic . The 120 suspension ropes consist of 160 to 280 millimeters thick, high-density polyethylene- coated prestressing steel cables with a thickness of 160 to 280 millimeters each. The total length of the cables is around 540 kilometers. The construction depends fan system at four each 71.66 meters high and 3.14 to 5.40 meters thick pylons . A total of around 58,000 cubic meters of concrete and 5,776 tons of steel (excluding stay cables) were used for the bridge .

The building, opened on January 18, 1996 by the then Transport Minister Annemarie Jorritsma , is named after the poet Martinus Nijhoff (1894–1953). In 1934 he dedicated a line of text in a sonnet to the Bommel Bridge , the historical predecessor of today's motorway bridge , which has since been demolished . The historic Dr. W. Hupkes railway bridge is right next to the Martinus Nijhoff Bridge .