Dusseldorf
Oberkasseler Brücke
Oberkassel Bridge
Düsseldorfer Straße
Dusseldorf,
Nearest Train: Tonhalle
Phone: +49 211 17 2020
When the original Oberkassel bridge was destroyed during World War II, a temporary bridge was immediately built in its place. After the war, the decision was made to erect a completely new bridge, but it was impossible to pull the temporary bridge down first because of its immense importance to the Rhineland's transport system. With this in mind, the new bridge was built parallel to the old one, and was then used while the old bridge was dismantled. In April 1976, in front of tens of thousands of onlookers, the 12,000-tonne bridge was moved 50m downstream to the spot where the first bridge originally stood.
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