Andreas Maurer bridge, Cable-stayed road bridge over the Danube in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria
The Andreas Maurer bridge is a cable-stayed road bridge over the Danube, carrying the B49 Bernstein Straße between Hainburg an der Donau and Engelhartstetten. Its A-shaped steel pylon, 76.33 metres tall, stands above a river pier and supports cables fanning to a deck 13.4 metres wide. The structure is 1,872 metres long, with a 366-metre river crossing and main spans of 138, 228 and 60 metres.
Construction started in 1969 and finished in 1972, with the crossing opening to traffic in 1973. The bridge was named after Andreas Maurer, a former governor of Lower Austria, in 2012.
The bridge is named after Andreas Maurer, governor of Lower Austria from 1966 to 1981; the name was only given in 2012, four decades after the crossing opened. Its deck carries a two-lane road with a footpath and cycle track on each side, used by commuters and by walkers on the long-distance trails that cross the river here.
The crossing carries the B49 road and provides a clearance of about 13 to 14 meters for river traffic to pass underneath. Pedestrians and cyclists can use the structure and have access on both sides of the Danube.
The bridge is the only Danube crossing between Vienna and Bratislava, at river kilometre 1886.20. Its steel pylon is 76.33 metres tall, and the river crossing itself measures 366 metres of the 1,872-metre total length.
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