Øresund Bridge

55.57694444444412.823333333333Koordinaten: 55 ° 34 ' 37 " N, 12 ° 49' 24" E

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Øresund

The Öresund Bridge (Danish: Øresundsbroen, Swedish Öresundsbron, Danish- Swedish hybrid name Øresundsbron ) is the world's longest cable-stayed bridge for combined road and rail transport. They, together with the Drogdentunnel and the artificial island Peberholm the toll Oresund link connecting the Danish capital Copenhagen with Malmö in Sweden and thus has significantly opened up the Oresund Region. The bridge was opened to traffic on July 1, 2000.

Technology

The total length of the bridge is 7845 meters train. The entrance to the mean high bridge via two ramp bridges. The western ramp bridge with a total length of 3014 meters consists of 22 bridge fields, of which 18 have a span of 140 meters. The 3739 meter long eastern approach bridge has 28 holes, 24 of which a have a span of 140 meters each and four of 120 meters.

In between lies the 1092 -meter high bridge, the actual Öresund Bridge, with a field span of 490 meters. The pylons are made of reinforced concrete, are 206 meters tall and 9.4 meters below the dimensions × 12.6 meters and above 2.6 meters x 5.8 meters. The two-storey superstructure has a height of 11 meters and a width of 30 meters. It consists of an overhead concrete ceiling in conjunction with the underlying steel timber framing. On the upper deck the four-lane highway is located in the truss are the two railway tracks. A use for bicycle travelers is not possible. The high bridge has a clear height of 57 meters at normal water level.

The one billion euro expensive bridge was built within 40 months, which was approximately 90 % with large finished parts. These were the foundation blocks, the piers and the bridge girders, which were all produced on land and mounted with the floating crane Svanen, which has a lifting capacity of 8700 tons and a lifting height of 76 meters. Only the two 20,000 -ton precast pylon foundations of the high bridge, cast in a dry dock, were transported with a load catamaran to the bridge construction site.

Name

The Öresund Bridge Consortium uses the self-constructed name Øresundsbron, which is a hybrid of the Danish and Swedish spelling. This notation is partly taken up by the media in the two countries, depending on whether one perceives the term as a proper name.

Completion

On the morning of September 14, 1999, a floating crane lifted a the last 140 m long bridge segment. Thus, a continuous land connection across the Sound was produced.

Early March 2003 the Swedish government decided to build a 11 km new railway line from the bridge to Malmö Central Station.

Bridge damage

In a review in 2006, damages were found on the bridge. These relate to the support cable and corrosion on the superstructures and wider cracks in reinforced concrete. Main causes are to be the moist sea air and the vibrations emanating from the trains.

• Bridge Views

Oresund Bridge between the Danish island of Peberholm and the Swedish mainland

View of the driver

View from the Danish shore

Oresund bridge

The middle of the Oresund Bridge

View from Swedish banks (Malmö)