Tacitus Bridge

Tacitusbrug
Convicted	Rijksweg 50 , ; bicycle and pedestrian path
Crossing of	Waal
place	Ewijk (municipality of Beuningen )
Entertained by	Rijkswaterstaat
construction	Cable-stayed bridge
overall length	1055 m
width	36.4 m
Longest span	270 m
Headroom	22.51 m (for ships)
start of building	1971 (first bridge), ; 2011 (second bridge)
opening	June 30, 1976 (first bridge), ; May 21, 2013 (second bridge)
	location

51.885472 5.73791Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 8 ″ N , 5 ° 44 ′ 16 ″ E

The Tacitusbrücke ( Dutch Tacitusbrug ) spans at Ewijk in the Dutch municipality of Beuningen the Waal , the southern arm of the Rhine in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta . The structure, which consists of four cable-stayed bridges , is located at kilometer 35.82 of the Dutch waterway 101 (Rhine-Waal- Boven-Merwede -Beneden -Merwede - Noord ) (Rhine kilometer 893.70). Rijksweg A50 runs over the bridge, one of the most important north-south connections in the Netherlands. At 270 meters, the two bridges have the longest bridge spans in the Netherlands after the Van Brienenoord Bridge and the Erasmus Bridge . The spans are from south to north 75 m + 3x90 m + 105 m + 270 m + 105 m + 2x85 m + 60 m.

The eastern bridge was built from 1971 to 1976 and was initially called the Waal Bridge near Ewijk and the Herman-de-Man Bridge (Dutch: Waalbrug bij Ewijk , Herman de Man Brug ). In 2007 it was found that the structure could no longer cope with the increasing traffic due to material fatigue . To the west of the existing bridge, another bridge was built from 2011, which was completed on March 28, 2013 and opened to traffic on May 21 of the same year. Since then, the older bridge has been subjected to extensive renovation work. From 2017, the motorway will then run over both constructions with four lanes each.

Although the bridge was already officially named after Herman de Man, a competition was held at the end of 2012 to give the construction a new name. On March 28, 2013, the winner was announced and the bridge was officially renamed Tacitusbrug , after the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus .