Danube city bridge, Cable-stayed bridge in Vienna, Austria.
The Donaustadtbrücke is a railway bridge over the Danube and the Neue Donau, linking Leopoldstadt (2nd district) with Donaustadt (22nd district) and carrying the U2 metro line. Over the Danube it is a cable-stayed bridge with a single 85-metre steel A-pylon whose top has a crest-like shape; the Danube Island and Neue Donau are crossed by a girder bridge. The engineer Alfred Pauser designed it with the architects Wilhelm Holzbauer and Heinz Marschalek. There are no footpaths or cycle paths on the bridge.
This crossing opened in 1997 as a new link between Leopoldstadt and Donaustadt districts. It was built in response to Vienna's expansion and the need to connect the Danube Island more effectively.
The bridge is named after Donaustadt, the 22nd district it links to Leopoldstadt. Since 2 October 2010 it has carried Line U2 of the Vienna metro, whose trains run over the structure between the Donaumarina and Donaustadtbrücke stations. No footpaths or cycle routes exist on the bridge; those cross on the neighbouring Praterbrücke.
There are no footpaths or cycle paths on the bridge itself; pedestrians and cyclists cross on the neighbouring Praterbrücke. The U2 metro line runs over the bridge, with Donaumarina station south of the Danube in Leopoldstadt and Donaustadtbrücke station north of it in Donaustadt. The bridge stands just upstream of the Praterbrücke, near the Ernst-Happel-Stadion.
The 85-metre steel pylon has a crest-shaped head, and it was designed from the start to hold twice as many cables: in 2008 the stay cables were doubled from five to ten pairs per side. The bridge was built for a future U2 line long before the metro arrived in 2010.
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