Pont de Recouvrance

Infobox Bridge
bridge_name = Pont de Recouvrance

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caption = The Pont de Recouvrance from the Tour Tanguy
carries = Rue de Siam
crosses = Penfeld
locale = Brest, Brittany, France
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design =Vertical lift bridge
material =Reinforced concrete, steel
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length = 88m
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height = 70m
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begin = 1950
complete = 1954
open = 1954
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coordinates = coord|48|23|03.7|N|04|29|47.3|W|region:FR_type:landmark
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long = Opened on 17 July 1954, the pont de Recouvrance is a bridge in Brest, France across the river Penfeld. It was the largest vertical lift bridge in Europe from its construction until the opening of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2008. It links the bottom of the rue de Siam to the quartier de Recouvrance, replacing a swing bridge (the pont National) destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944.

Each pylon is 70m high and the 525-tonne moving cradle is 88m long.

History

Before the bridges

The Pont National

The new post-war bridges

The pont de Kervallon

The "pont Gueydon" floating bridge

The Pont de l’Hôpital or Pont de l’Harteloire

The Pont de Recouvrance

Characteristics

Trivia

Bibliography

*"Le pont levant de Brest", brochure edited by La Télémécanique Électrique (1954 ?)

External links

* [http://www.structurae.info/fr/structures/data/s0002932/index.cfm Structurae]