Rhine bridges in North Rhine-Westphalia

In the following overview, all Rhine bridges in North Rhine-Westphalia are listed. In contrast to many other representations, the bridges are described in the order upstream. With a click of the left mouse button on a picture a larger photo of the respective bridge is displayed.

The overview starts with the first Rhine bridge in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rhine bridge Emmerich, just before the border to the Netherlands.

km 853,20: Rheinbrücke Emmerich

Structure Type: Suspension bridge
Function: Road (B 220)
Year completed: 1965

km 838,6: Rheinbrücke Rees

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road (B 67)
Year completed: 1967

km 815,28: Eisenbahn-Rheinbrücke Wesel (debris)

Structure Type: Truss bridge
Function: Railway, 1945 blown up and not rebuilt
Year completed: 1926/27

km 813,89: Niederrheinbrücke Wesel

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road (B 58n)
Year completed: 2009

km 785,3: Rheinbrücke Emscherschnellweg Duisburg

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 42)
Year completed: 1990

km 785,0: Haus-Knipp-Brücke (Duisburg-Ruhrort)

Structure Type: Truss bridge
Function: Railway
Year completed: 1946

km 780,7: Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (Duisburg-Homberg)

Structure Type: Self-anchored suspension bridge with discontinuous cables
Function: Road (B 60)
Year completed: 1954

km 778,3: Rheinbrücke Duisburg-Neuenkamp

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 40)
Year completed: 1970

km 775,29: Rheinbrücke Duisburg-Rheinhausen

Structure Type: Tied-arch bridge
Function: Road (L 237)
Year completed: 1949/50

km 774,38: Rheinbrücke Duisburg-Hochfeld

Structure Type: Truss bridge
Function: Railway
Year completed: 1949 (1945 destroyed, 1948/49 rebuilt in old form)

km 764,04: Rheinbrücke Krefeld-Uerdingen

Structure Type: Self-anchored suspension bridge with discontinuous cables
Function: Road (B 288)
Year completed: 1950 (1945 destroyed, 1949/50 rebuilt in old form)

km 752,50: Flughafenbrücke (Düsseldorf/Meerbusch)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 44)
Year completed: 1999 – 2002

km 746,70: Theodor-Heuss-Brücke (Düsseldorf)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road
Year completed: 1957

km 744,82: Oberkasseler Brücke (Düsseldorf)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road (L 391) and tram
Year completed: 1977

km 743,60: Kniebrücke (Düsseldorf)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road
Year completed: 1967

km 738,2: Hammer Brücke (Düsseldorf)

Structure Type: Combination arch/truss bridge
Function: Railway
Year completed: 1987

km 737,1: Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke (Südbrücke, Düsseldorf/Neuss)

Structure Type: Box girder bridge
Function: Road (B 1) and Tram
Year completed: 1950/51

km 732,4: Fleher Brücke (Düsseldorf/Neuss)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 46)
Year completed: 1979

km 701,4: Rheinbrücke Leverkusen

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 1)
Year completed: 1964

km 691,9: Mülheimer Brücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Suspension bridge
Function: Road (B 51) and Tram
Year completed: 1950/51

km 690,2: Zoobrücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Box girder bridge
Function: Road (B 55a)
Year completed: 1966

km 688,5: Hohenzollernbrücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Truss arch bridge (3 separate superstructures)
Function: Railway
Year completed: 1952/1959/1989

km 687,95: Deutzer Brücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Single-cell box girder bridge
Function: Road (L 111)
Year completed: 1948, 1980 extension by "twin"

km 687,28: Severinsbrücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road (B 55)
Year completed: 1956- 1959

km 685,7: Südbrücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Tied-arch bridge
Function: Railway
Year completed: 1947 – 1950 (1945 blown up, rebuilt in old form)

km 683,8: Rodenkirchener Brücke (Cologne)

Structure Type: Suspension bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A4)
Year completed: 1953/54 (blown up in 1945, rebuilt in old form), 1990 - 1994 extended to double width

km 657,1: Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (Bonn)

Structure Type: Cable-stayed bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 565)
Year completed: 1966

km 654,9: Kennedy-Brücke (Bonn)

Structure Type: Box girder bridge
Function: Road (B 56a)
Year completed: 1949

km 651,4: Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke (Bonn)

Structure Type: Box girder bridge
Function: Road/Autobahn (A 562)
Year completed: 1972

The next bridge structure upstream are the remains of the Remagen Bridge, but they are already in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Note: the copyrights for all photos on this page are held by Harald Halfpapp, unless otherwise indicated.