Transporter bridge

A transporter bridge is a suspension railway on a stretch of water away. It does not float, but rather attached to ropes or rods with an elevated bridge girder and travels above the water, from one side of a river or channel to the other.

Benefits

A transporter bridge can also drive in ice and a frozen water and needs less energy than a ferry. It is cheaper to construct than a vehicle bridge with the same clearance for vessel traffic. The first transporter bridge was designed by the architect and engineer Alberto Palacio, who built it with the engineer Ferdinand Arnodin. Both are considered as their inventor.

Dissemination

Worldwide, from the original 20 transporter bridges still get eight, including three in the UK ( Newport, Middlesbrough and Warrington ), one in France ( Rochefort ), one in Argentina ( Buenos Aires ), one in Spain between Portugalete and Getxo and two in Germany:

• The Transporter Bridge East Hemmoor, taken 1909, and therefore the oldest in Germany, travels between East and Hemmoor and crossing the river Oste.
• The second runs between Osterronfeld and Rendsburg and crosses under the - built between 1911 and 1913 steel - Rendsburg High Bridge hanging, the North Sea-Baltic Canal.

Built in 2003 Euroga Adventure Bridge is a manual mode operated by anyone small transporter bridge over the Nier that connects the district Moenchengladbach Neuwerk - Donk with the neighboring Willich -Neersen. It is intended only for pedestrians and cyclists.

In one opened in October 2006 so-called transporter bridge in the park under the bridge Müngstener bridge in Solingen is technically considered a cable car. It connects the Solingen and Remscheid the banks of the Wupper, similarly operated by muscle power of a railway bogie and offers 10 persons including ferryman place.

The transporter bridges in East and Rendsburg are the landmarks which opened in May 2004, the German Ferry Road, a 250 -kilometer tourist holiday road leading from Kiel to Bremervörde and it shows almost all the methods that humans have developed to cross a body of water.

The Puente de Vizcaya Transporter Bridge between Portugalete and Getxo in Spain's Basque country, is the oldest transporter bridge in the world. It was inaugurated in 1893 and is still in operation today. Since 2006 she is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

More

In the fall of 2003, the World Association of transporter bridges was founded in Bilbao. The honorary chairman took over the Spanish King Juan Carlos I. In April 2006, was constituted under the chairmanship of Jochen Bölsche ( East), a working group German transporter bridges, inter alia, the mayors of the four neighboring communities to the transporter bridges over the Oste and the North Sea-Baltic Canal belong.