VÖEST Bridge, Cable-stayed road bridge in Linz, Austria

The VÖEST Bridge is a cable-stayed structure carrying traffic across the Danube River near Linz, connecting the city on both sides of the waterway. The bridge features a single tall pylon with cables radiating downward to support a steel box girder deck that carries vehicles.

The main bridge was built between 1969 and 1972 and named after the Linz steel group VÖEST, which planned it and erected the steel superstructure; Mayreder, Krauss & Co. and E. Hamberger built the substructure. It was Austria's first cable-stayed bridge. From spring 2018 two bypass bridges were added, opened in summer 2020, and the main bridge was renovated from late 2022 to November 2023.

The bridge is named after the Linz steel group VÖEST, which planned and built its steel superstructure. Since the 1980s, signs have permitted cycling across the Danube here, and today walkers and cyclists use the outer paths of the two bypass bridges, separated from motor traffic by noise barriers.

Pedestrians and cyclists cross on the two bypass bridges, each with a combined foot and cycle path separated from motor traffic by a noise barrier; the main bridge keeps only a fifth lane for the southbound entry from the Linz-Urfahr junction. The deck lies 8 m above the Danube's highest navigable water level, and the shipping channel runs between the bypass piers.

The 69.26 m pylon stands over the bridge's only pier in the Danube, placed well left of the river's centre; three harp-shaped cables run north and three south from it. A 3.50 m gap between the two carriageway structures holds the pylon and the cable anchorages.