Passerelle des Deux Rives
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 9 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 13 ″ E
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| use | Bicycle and pedestrian bridge | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Strasbourg , Kehl | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 387 meters | |
| opening | April 23, 2004 | |
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The Passerelle des Deux Rives (German bridge of the two banks ) is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge over the Rhine . It was designed by the Parisian architect Marc Mimram as the centerpiece of the cross-border State Garden Show between the cities of Strasbourg and Kehl . At the opening of the garden show on April 23, 2004, it was inaugurated and given its purpose. The Passerelle des deux Rives is part of the transboundary garden of the two banks .
As a symbol of Europe growing together , it spans the border river Rhine . On April 4, 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of NATO, the heads of state and government of the NATO countries met on the Rhine bridge for a symbolic handshake.
architecture
The upper part of the bridge is braced with 72 ropes. They are supported by two pillars in the river bed.
It is a double bridge: one of the two footbridges, 387 meters long, spans from the Kehler dam breakthrough at the level of Großherzog-Friedrich-Strasse all the way into the Rheinpark on the French side. The other footbridge, 275 meters long, extends directly from one bank to the other. In the middle, about twelve meters above the Rhine, the two superstructures are connected by a large platform. The narrower bridge is reserved for pedestrians, the wider one can also be used by cyclists and wheelchair users.
1050 tons of steel were used for the Passerelle des Deux Rives. The cost was 21 million euros, of which the city of Kehl 41 and Strasbourg took over 59 percent. The project was supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg and the European Union .
history
In place of the Passerelle des Deux Rives, French soldiers built a pontoon bridge over the Rhine on April 16, 1945 , over which General de Lattre de Tassigny entered Strasbourg on the same day from the German bank of the Rhine. A memorial stone at the foot of the passerelle commemorates this event.
The Passerelle des Deux Rives in the evening
The Passerelle des Deux Rives at night
Aerial view of the Passerelle des Deux Rives (taken from the German side)
Picture from the German side
Picture from the German side towards Strasbourg
Obama , Merkel , Sarkozy , Brown , Berlusconi and other heads of state on the bridge
See also
- Dreiländerbrücke , 2006, between Weil am Rhein in southern Baden and the French Huningue in Alsace with a view of Basel (CH)
- Rhine bridges
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Badische Zeitung, April 4, 2009
- ↑ Angelika Sadlau, Helmut Schneider, Carl Helmut Steckner: Die Lange Bruck: 600 years of ways to neighbors , Kehl 1989, p. 35.
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The next bridge up the river: Pierre-Pflimlin Bridge |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Europabrücke |