Oddesundbroen
Coordinates: 56 ° 34 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 34 ″ E
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| use | Primærrute 11, railway, bike path, footpath | |
| Crossing of | Oddesund , Limfjord | |
| place | between Humlum Sogn and Odby Sogn in the Struer municipality | |
| Entertained by | Vejdirektoratet | |
| construction | Bascule bridge , arch bridge | |
| overall length | 473.0 m | |
| width | 14.0 m | |
| Number of openings | 9 | |
| Clear width | 29.0 m | |
| Clear height | 5 m, bascule bridge | |
| vehicles per day | 5,780 (as of 2014) | |
| building-costs | 6,576,700 DKR | |
| start of building | 1934 | |
| completion | 1938 | |
| opening | May 15, 1938 | |
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Oddesundbroen ( German the Oddesund Bridge ) is a combined road and rail bridge in the Danish municipality of Struer , which crosses the Oddesund in the Limfjord and connects the mainland in northern Jutland with the Thyholm peninsula in the southwest of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy . The bridge is located on Primærrute 11 from the German-Danish border crossing Sæd to Aalborg and is used by 5,780 vehicles every day (as of 2014). The 473 meter long combined bascule and arch bridge was completed in 1938.
history
In 1874, a commission was set up to examine the construction of a dam over the Oddesund, which, in addition to a connection between the two parts of the country, should also stop the water masses from the North Sea. The commission came to no conclusion, however, and in 1883 the discussion about the construction of a dam finally fell silent after a ferry connection and the Thybanen railway line between Thisted and Struer was opened. In its final report in 1912, a new commission advised against building a dam, as considerable damage to the environment was to be expected, including the silting up of the Thyborøn Canal and the death of fish in the Limfjord.
The state-owned Danish railway company DSB developed a design in 1931 that provided for a combined road and railway bridge made of three steel arches and a movable folding part at the northeast end. A law to build the bridge was passed by the Reichstag in March 1932 - together with the construction of Storstrømsbro between Falster and Zealand . After four years of construction, in which a worker was killed in May 1937, the bridge was officially inaugurated on May 15, 1938. At the ceremony, which was attended by an estimated 40-50,000 people, King Christian X crossed the bridge in his saloon car . The construction costs of 6,576,700 kroner were shared by the owners of the project: Ringkøbing Amt , Thisted Amt and DSB.
Because of its strategic importance, the Oddesundbroen was closely guarded during the German occupation . Several bunkers have been preserved at the southeast end at Grisetå Odde and can be visited.
See also
Web links
- C. Brunsgaard: BROERNE I NORDVESTJYLLAND. (PDF) Oddesundbroen. Retrieved May 4, 2018 (Danish).
- Construction plans. Danmarks Vej- og Bromuseum , January 22, 2011, archived from the original on August 20, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2018 (Danish).
- Oddesundbroen. (PDF) In: danskehavnelods.dk. February 16, 2018, accessed May 4, 2018 (Danish).
- Oddesundbroen. In: denstoredanske.dk. Retrieved May 4, 2018 (Danish).
- Oddesundbroen. In: thyholm.lokalarkiver.dk. Retrieved May 4, 2018 (Danish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Vejdirektoratet (Trafikken.dk): Oddesundbroen , accessed on November 14, 2011 (Danish)
- ↑ a b c Lars Bugge: Kort and godt om danske broer . 2nd Edition. Aschehoug Dansk Forlag A / S, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-11-16234-1 , Oddesundbroen, p. 26th ff . (Danish).
- ↑ a b Vejdirektoratet: Trafik på målestationer, 2014 , accessed on July 28, 2015 (Danish)
- ↑ a b c d C. Brunsgaard: BROERNE I NORDVESTJYLLAND. (PDF) Oddesundbroen. Retrieved May 4, 2018 (Danish).
- ↑ a b Erik Johannesen: Danmarks Broer . 1st edition. Borgens Forlag, Copenhagen-Valby 1994, ISBN 87-418-0153-9 , Oddesundbroen, p. 24 ff . (Danish).
- ↑ Henrik Lange: Portræt af Oddesundbroen . In Highways.dk , accessed November 14, 2011 (Danish)