Salzach Bridge (Burghausen – Wanghausen)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 25 ″  E

New Salzach Bridge
New Salzach Bridge [1]
use Road bridge
Crossing of Salzach
place Burghausen / Wanghausen ( Hochburg-Ach )
construction Girder bridge
overall length 206.50
width 7.50
start of building 1960
completion 1961
location
Salzach Bridge (Burghausen – Wanghausen) (Bavaria)
Salzach Bridge (Burghausen – Wanghausen)

The Salzachbrücke Burghausen – Wanghausen is an international road bridge over the Salzach . It connects the Bavarian town of Burghausen ( Altötting district ) with the Upper Austrian town of Wanghausen ( Hochburg-Ach community in the Upper Innviertel ). It is one of currently five bridges between Bavaria and Austria.

History, location and construction

The local border bridge or Neue Salzachbrücke as well as the connection officially called Salzachbrücke Ach-Burghausen from the Austrian side was built in 1960/1961 to relieve the old Salzachbrücke between the old town of Burghausen and the village of Ach an der Salzach , which also belongs to Hochburg-Ach . The structure connects the German state road 2357 Tittmoninger Straße with the Upper Austrian L 501 Weilhart Landesstraße .

The bridge stands on the Austrian side at the eastern end of Wanghausen and on the German side southwest of the old town of Burghausen. It is designed as a prestressed box girder bridge with four fields. Its length is 206.50 m, of which 63.9% (131.95 m) is on Austrian soil and 36.1% (74.55 m) is on Bavarian territory. The lengths of the four individual spans are 45.25 m, 60.45 m, 54.30 m and 42.50 m; the driving width of the bridge is 7.50 m. The bridge spans the Salzach and, on the Austrian side, a municipal road and a piece of land as well as a walking and cycling path on both sides of the river. On the Austrian side, this is also the Tauern Cycle Path .

The German and Austrian border controls at the bridge were only carried out on the Burghauser side from 1970, the border crossing is referred to in the legal texts as Burghausen - Neue Brücke (Austria) and Burghausen - Neue Salzachbrücke (Germany). After the permanent border controls were lifted, the border control building that still exists today has served as the Altes Zollamt art house since 2007 , and is used by a group of visual artists from Burghausen .

In 2005, the bridge was used by around 6,260 vehicles a day, with heavy traffic accounting for around 4.4%.

In summer 2008, extensive renovation work was carried out on the roadway, sidewalks and railings on the bridge. The costs amounted to around 1 million euros and were raised proportionally by the preservers, the state of Upper Austria and the Free State of Bavaria. The costs for lighting the bridge were borne by the two neighboring communities. The bridge remained free for pedestrian traffic during the three months of the work.

Trivia

Across the bridge of each year since 2001, carried out in Burghausen and Oh leads Bridge Run , a fun run for charitable purposes.

Banner of the elementary school project From Bridge to Bridge in May 2012

In 2012, the bridge, together with the second bridge between Burghausen and Hochburg-Ach, was the name motif for a primary school project on both sides of the Salzach. “From bridge to bridge” was the title of a joint campaign by the Hochburg-Ach elementary school and the Hans-Stethaimer-Schule in Burghausen, in which banners with German and Austrian names for the same cause were placed on both sides of the Salzach (such as apricot - Apricot , quark - curd cheese etc.).

proof

  1. ↑ In addition to this designation, other, similar names can also be found. The names of the bridge are also inconsistent in official documents and communications. Basically, this building is juxtaposed as a new bridge to the old Salzach bridge in Ach an der Salzach.
  2. ↑ So the name in the official digital Upper Austrian spatial information system (DORIS) layer bridges (accessed on August 3, 2015). The place Wanghausen belongs to the cadastral municipality Ach. A second bridge from Burghausen to the village of Ach an der Salzach ( Salzachbrücke Burghausen-Ach ), known locally as the Alte Salzachbrücke , is officially referred to in Austria as the Kleine Salzachbrücke .
  3. ↑ It is exactly the L 501b Weilhart Landesstraße - street branch Neue Grenzbrücke Straße . See Digitales Oberösterreichisches Rauminformationssystem (DORIS) Layer Bridges , accessed on August 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ All length information according to the Salzach Bridge in Hochburg-Ach is being completely renovated , in: Land Oberösterreich: Landeskorrespondenz No. 66 of March 18, 2008 ; accessed on August 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ See the corresponding German and Austrian legal provisions from 1970 ( Federal Law Gazette II p. 149 and Federal Law Gazette No. 193/1987 ).
  6. ↑ See www.kuenstlergruppe-dieburg.de , accessed on October 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ See When the apricot becomes apricot , Burghauser Anzeiger from May 7, 2012, accessed on February 22, 2016.