Sasbach – Marckolsheim bridge over the Rhine
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 14 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 56" E
| Sasbach – Marckolsheim bridge over the Rhine | ||
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| use | Border crossing for motor vehicles and pedestrians | |
| Convicted | L113 | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl , Marckolsheim | |
| construction | prestressed concrete | |
| overall length | 268 meters | |
| vehicles per day | 4400 | |
| building-costs | 6.5 million DM | |
| start of building | 1983 | |
| completion | 1984 | |
| opening | 4th October 1984 | |
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The Sasbach – Marckolsheim Rhine bridge is a Rhine crossing on the border between Germany and France .
The road bridge is part of the state road L113 or the department road D424 and connects Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in Baden with Marckolsheim in Alsace . The structure, which is straight in plan, has a seven-meter-wide carriageway for the two lanes and walkways on both sides. Around 4,400 vehicles passed the bridge every day in 2003.
history
A Rhine crossing with a ferry at the foot of the Limburg , near the municipality of Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, was first mentioned in a document in 1417. In 1873 a ship bridge followed as a replacement , which was destroyed in November 1944. In 1945 the French armed forces erected a pontoon bridge , which was also opened to civil traffic from 1961. In 1974, planning began for a permanent Rhine crossing, which was concluded in 1982 with the signing of a state treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on bridge construction.
Construction of the first permanent Rhine bridge between France and Germany after the Second World War, which had no previous structure, began in 1983, and the inauguration ceremony followed on October 4, 1984. A joint venture between two German construction companies built the bridge. The construction costs amounted to 6.5 million DM , 0.3 million DM more than planned.
construction
The 268 meter long girder bridge is a prestressed concrete structure that spans the Rhine with five spans. The superstructure has a box girder cross-section and was constructed in sections on a falsework with auxiliary yokes. The foundations of the structure are shallow in the dense bedded Rhine gravel.
