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Mainz / Wiesbaden (dpa) - After a trip on a ship, the last large section of the new Schiersteiner Bridge between Mainz and Wiesbaden was hydraulically raised on Thursday.
"We hope that we can complete the lifting process during the night," said a spokesman for the federal autobahn GmbH on Thursday afternoon.
The elaborate campaign also attracted onlookers.
The dimensions were enormous: the last of four large bridge sections for the 643 autobahn over the Rhine weighed 2,000 tons and was 120 meters long.
At a correspondingly long gap in the new bridge, two so-called strand jacks lifted the missing intermediate piece, which was hanging on thick steel cables.
The preassembled part of the bridge on the Hessian bank was pushed onto the large pontoon ship this week and brought into the Mombach arm of the Rhine.
Around a dozen skilled workers were deployed between the Rettbergsaue island and Mainz-Mombach.
The Schiersteiner Bridge is expected to be ready by the end of 2021.
At this junction in the Rhine-Main area, traffic has been rolling over the first new partial bridge over the Rhine since November 2017.
At the transition from the Rhineland-Palatinate bank to the new partial bridge, only 40 km / h is allowed on the four narrow lanes.
The second parallel partial bridge is still being built.
Since January 1, 2021, the new federal motorway company has been responsible for the renewal of the A643 bridge over the Rhine between the Hessian and Rhineland-Palatinate state capitals.
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In future, the A643 should have six lanes here.
The total costs are estimated at 216 million euros.
The Schiersteiner Bridge was built in the 1960s for around 20,000 vehicles per day; in 2012, 90,000 vehicles rolled over it every day.
The old four-lane A643 bridge made headlines in 2015 with a construction accident and a total closure.
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