Moselle Viaduct

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F1

Federal Highway 61

Moselle

The Moseltalbrücke is the crossing of the Federal Highway 61 across the Moselle and simultaneously connects the Hunsrück Eifel. The highway bridge is located between the municipalities of Dieblich Winningen.

Bridge building

The Moselle valley bridge was built between 1969 and 1972 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport. Were involved in construction, the Road Administration Rhineland-Palatinate and the road construction department Andernach. The building was carried firms Schnorpfeil / Heinz Schnorpfeil Bau GmbH, DSD Dillinger steel construction, Ed. Züblin AG, Julius Berger Bauboag AG and Lenz -Bau AG. On 1 July 1971, the engineer crashed during survey work from the rocks of the Blumslay to death. The bridge then cost 39 million DM

Technical details

It is a girder bridge from steel; it is 935 meters long and 30.5 meters wide. The maximum height of the roadway above the ground is 136 meters.

The spans between the piers be 156.8 m - 218.2 m - 170.5 m - 146.1 m - 133.9 m - 109.6 m. About the piers that were built with a hollow cross section of reinforced concrete and a wall thickness of 0.3 m, supplied as a single-celled steel box girder superstructure, which has a height of 6 to 8.5 meters and a width of 10.8 meters below. The entire steel structure weighs about 11,463 tons.

The bridge has a steel structure inside the device, which, in case of war, can be filled with explosives. This makes it possible to blow up the whole bridge.

Service Area

Right on the Moseltalbrücke are in a northerly direction on both sides of the motorway service areas, each with a lookout on the bridge and the Moselle Valley. Furthermore, a path leads under the bridge to the other side of the highway.