Pont de Normandie
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 0 ° 16 ′ 32 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | His | |
| place | Le Havre - Honfleur | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 2141.25 m | |
| Longest span | 856 m | |
| height | 203 m | |
| Headroom | 52 m | |
| start of building | 1988 | |
| completion | 1994 | |
| opening | January 20, 1995 | |
| planner | Michel Virlogeux (concept), Bernard Raspaud (engineer), François Doyelle, Charles Lavigne , Alain Montois (architects) | |
| toll | Yes | |
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The Pont de Normandie (German: Bridge of Normandy ) is a cable-stayed bridge with the largest span in Europe at 856 m. It crosses the Seine estuary and connects Le Havre (then Haute-Normandie ) on the right bank in the north with Honfleur (then Basse-Normandie ) on the left bank in the south. The bridge was built between 1988 and 1994 and was inaugurated on January 20, 1995.
Overall, the 23.60 m wide bridge has a length of 2141.25 m. It consists of the southern approach bridges with twelve spans and spans of 96.00 m + 9 × 43.50 m + 32.5 m + 3 × 70 m + 27.75 m (= 547.75 m), the northern approach bridges with 16 fields and spans of 96.00 m + 14 × 43.50 m + 32.50 m (= 737.50 m) and the 856 m main opening. The 3 m high superstructure of the main opening consists of a 624 m long steel middle section, to which 116 m long sections of prestressed concrete are connected on both sides . The pylons of the cable-stayed bridge are 203 m high and each carry 2 × 23 cables. The clearance height for ships is 52 m at the highest known water level.
Upstream the next bridges are the Pont de Tancarville and the Pont de Brotonne .
The bridge is subject to a toll . Currently (2016) a fee of between EUR 5.40 and EUR 13.50 is charged for a single crossing, depending on the vehicle height and weight. The A 29 / E 44 runs over them ; the bridge itself does not have the status of a motorway, so that vehicles that are not allowed to use the motorway can use this connection. There is a combined footpath and bike path for both directions of travel.
An information center on the north bank shows the history of the bridge as well as detailed representations of anchorages and a cross-section through a pylon.
View to the top of the pylon
Pont de Normandie
literature
- Serge Montens: Les 500 plus beaux ponts de France . Christine Bonneton éditeur, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-86253-453-4 .
- Michel Virlogeux: The Normandy Bridge, France . In: Gerhard Mehlhorn (Ed.): Handbuch Brücken , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-29659-1 , pp. 234-235
Web links
- Site of the Pont de Normandie and the Pont de Tancarville (French)
- Bridge homepage Bernd Nebel (private site)
- Structurae: Normandy Bridge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sur le pont ... In: Die Zeit , No. 51/1994