Wildbichler Brücke, Road bridge in Kufstein, Austria
The Wildbichler Brücke is a road bridge in Kufstein that crosses the Inn, the Tiroler Straße B 171 and the Unterinntalbahn railway. The Inntalautobahn A 12 and the Wildbichler Straße B 175 run on two separate decks, each with a top-mounted roadway. The two decks share a 52 m river pier and have their own piers on the left bank; the total width is 42 m. The abutments and piers are reinforced concrete, the decks prestressed concrete.
The structure was built between 1966 and 1969 using an innovative method for sliding construction segments into place, developed by engineers Willi Baur and Fritz Leonhardt. This construction technique represented a technical advance for the period and set new standards in bridge engineering.
The bridge's name comes from the Wildbichler Straße B 175, the road to Wildbichl that crosses it alongside the A 12. Its two separate decks carry the motorway and the regional road side by side, and the shared 52 m river pier beneath them is the point where all three structures meet. When the deck sagged in July 1990, all traffic was diverted through Kufstein's town centre and the ÖBB line was temporarily closed.
The bridge carries the A 12 autobahn and the B 175 on two separate decks, so drivers must follow signage for the correct carriageway. During the 1990 closure, all autobahn and main-road traffic was diverted through Kufstein's town centre and the ÖBB line was temporarily shut.
The Wildbichler Bridge was the first bridge built using the incremental launching method developed by Willi Baur and Fritz Leonhardt. Its three decks share a single 52-metre river pier, and the total width is 42 metres. The main spans measure 59.4 + 3 × 102.4 + 59.4 metres.
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