Strömsund Bridge

The Strömsund Bridge (Swedish: Strömsundsbron) is a cable-stayed road bridge, bringing road E45 over Ströms vattudal, in Strömsund, Jämtland, Sweden.

View of Strömsund Bridge from eastern side.
View of Strömsund Bridge from western side.

The bridge is 332 m (1,089 ft) long, with a 182 m (597 ft) main span.[1] Differing from what is stated almost throughout, the bridge was not designed by the German civil engineer Franz Dischinger, who at the time was already deceased. Instead, the design was submitted in 1953 for an international competition by the German steel construction company Demag (which had previously cooperated intensively with Dischinger). The structure, which opened in 1956, is considered to be the world's first large cable-stayed bridge of the modern type and was built by Demag together with the Swedish concrete construction company Skanska.[2]

References
  1. Strömsund Bridge at Structurae. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. Building knowledge, constructing histories : Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium. Volumes 1 & 2. Wouters, Ine,, Voorde, Stephanie Van de,, Bertels, Inge,, Espion, Bernard,, Jonge, Krista de,, Zastavni, Denis,. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-0-429-50620-8. OCLC 1096329307.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link)


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