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Structure-ID: s0000182
Created on: 04/29/99
Modified on: 02/28/07


Köln-Mülheimer Brücke

Built: 1927 - 1929
Status: destroyed
Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Crossed: Rhine River
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Structural Type:
Self-anchored suspension bridge
Function / usage:
Road bridge
Replaced by: Köln-Mülheimer Brücke (1951)
Replaces: Mülheimer Schiffbrücke (1888)

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Architect Adolf Gaston Abel

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Owner Stadt Köln
Contractor Felten & Guilleaume
  Harkort AG
  Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg
  Vereinigte Stahlwerke

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
cables  steel
deck  steel
pylons  steel
Dimensions
  main span 315 m
  span lengths 4 x 23.4 - 2 x 52.1 - 91.03 - 315 -91.03 m
deck   deck width 27.2 m

Chronology
14 August 1944
Destroyed

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External LinkCologne German

Relevant Literature
* Le pont en construction sur le Rhin, à Cologne-Mulheim, in "La Technique des Travaux", January 1928, n. 1 v. 4 .
* Kommerell, O.   Engerer Wettbewerb um Entwürfe für eine feste Strassenbrücke über den Rhein in Köln-Mülheim, Julius Springer, Berlin (Germany) , 1927.
* Pfennig, Jörg   Über Brücken, conMedia Verlag, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3929972069, 1996; pp. 190.
* Prade, Marcel   Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France) , ISBN 2902170653, 1990; pp. 83.

 
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