- Fleher Bridge
The Fleher Bridge in Duesseldorf is a motorway bridge (with foot and wheel strips parallel the roadways) over the Rhine, which connects A 46 from the linksrheinischen region (Neuss, Aachen, circle Heinsberg, the Netherlands) with the Bergi country (Wuppertal, Solingen, Hagen) and the Duesseldorfer the south. It forms at the same time the southern part of the Duesseldorfer of motorway tangent square. The release of this bridge in the year 1979 was a clear discharge of the south of Duesseldorf of the transit traffic and a substantial discharge of the south bridge at that time, which was up to then exclusive southern eingangstor from the left Rhine side to Duesseldorf. It was simultaneous a condition for the connection of A 46 to linksrheinischen A 57. The Fleher bridge has three driving strips and a standing tire for each driving direction. The bridge does not cross the Rhine in the right angle, in order to preserve the area of water procurement of the old water company Flehe. Coining/shaping for the Fleher bridge is the reinforced concrete suspension tower, which looks like a Ypsilon turned on the head. In the handles of the Pylons an elevator and stairs are accommodated above the roadway. The handles are in bridge longitudinal direction only 6.4 m broad. They were manufactured with a climbing formwork. The 13-feldrige foreland bridge is a prestressed concrete construction work with a construction height of 3,80 m and a total span of 13x60 m = 780 m. thereby exists covers on a length of nine fields from two single-cell hollow boxes with ever 7.0 m broad base plate. The remaining four fields within the range of the bridge removing possess against it a five-cellular box cross-section with base plate width of 29,5 m. A structural steelwork has the 368 m river opening stretching far as if cover.
Technical data
* Kind of bridge: Cable-stayed bridge
* Pylone: 1
* Height of the Pylons: 146.47 meters
* length: 1166 meters
* width: 41.7 meters
* construction height of 3.8 meters
* span: 368 meters
* opening year: 1979
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