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Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins. This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.
Caesar's Rhine Bridge, an 1814 portrait by John Soane The Italian cross-section of the bridge Reconstruction in Koblenz of a Roman pile driver, used to build the Rhine bridges. Caesar's bridges across the Rhine, the first two bridges on record to cross the Rhine river, were built by Julius Caesar and his legionaries during the Gallic War in 55 ...
Pages in category "Bridges over the Rhine" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This list of bridges in Germany lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
It was 325 metres (1,066 ft) long, had a clearance of 14.8 metres (49 ft) above the normal water level of the Rhine, and its highest point measured 29.25 metres (96.0 ft). The bridge was designed to be defended by troops with towers on each bank with machine gun slits in the towers. The bridge carried two railway tracks and a pedestrian walkway.
John Frost Bridge (John Frostbrug in Dutch) is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands.The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug ("Rhine Bridge") at the same location during the Battle of ...
The Rhine bridge at Arnhem, immortalized in the book, A Bridge Too Far and the film, was a central focus of the battle of Arnhem, during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944. The bridges at Nijmegen, over the Waal distributary of the Rhine, were also an objective of Operation Market Garden.
Theodor Heuss Bridge as seen from Kastel towards Mainz View of Mainz and the Theodor-Heuss-Bridge. The Theodor Heuss Bridge is an arch bridge over the Rhine River connecting the Mainz-Kastel district of Wiesbaden, capital of state Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz. The main span of the bridge is 102.94 meters (337.7 ft) long.