Cycling along the Rhine is always nice, regardless of whether you stay on the left side and enjoy the green of the Lower Rhine or you take the ferry and marvel at the industrial culture on the right side.
HARD TO BELIEVE; BUT DUISBURG REALLY HAS SEVEN RHINE BRIDGES -
FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THESE ARE IN DETAIL Auisburg has seven Rhine bridges
In 1945 not a single Rhine bridge in Duisburg was intact.
1. Krefeld-Uerding Bridge
• spans the Rhine between Krefeld Uerdingen and Duisburg Mündelheim
• is a bridle bridge (fake suspension bridge)
• the length is 860 meters
• The structure is one of the most beautiful Rhine bridges and has been under monument protection since 1987 because of the "architectural conception of the desired harmony between nature and technology".
2. Duisburg-Hochfeld railway bridge
• spans the Rhine between Duisburg Hochfeld and Duisburg Rheinhausen
• the first bridge train was put into operation at the end of 1873
• There have been four bridges over time
• The 1st bridge was opened for freight traffic on December 24, 1873 and passenger trains ran over this bridge from January 14, 1874.
• the 2nd bridge was put into operation on October 13, 1927
• the 3rd bridge was put into operation on May 12, 1945
• the 4th bridge was released on October 1, 1949
• the longest span is 189 m
3. Bridge of Solidarity
• This road bridge spans the Rhine between Duisburg Hochfeld and Duisburg Rheinhausen
• Opened to traffic on July 3, 1950
• Tied arch bridge
• 256 meters
• 500,000 steelworkers marched across the bridge to protest the closure of the Krupp steelworks. That was on January 20, 1988. The bridge got its name at that time. The steel workers came to the bridge from over 60 German steel works.
4. Neuenkamp Rhine Bridge
• Commissioning was on October 16, 1970
• was the most modern and longest steel cable bridge in the world