Lindaunis Bridge, Road and railway bascule bridge in Boren, Germany
The Lindaunis Bridge is a steel truss and bascule bridge across the Schlei at one of its narrowest points, linking the Schwansen and Angeln peninsulas in the municipality of Boren. Its brownish-red truss of repeating triangles rests on concrete piers, and a flat deck carries the railway and road. A tall brick-and-concrete operating building with a steep tiled roof stands at one end.
An earlier bridge from 1881 first connected the regions across this waterway, but was replaced by the current structure in 1927. The new design solved the problem of accommodating railway and road traffic alongside maritime passage through the inlet.
The bridge is known from the ZDF series Der Landarzt and from the third Werner film, Werner – Volles Rooäää!!!. North of it stood Lindaunis station, where passenger trains stopped until 1986; a seasonal request stop opened on the site in 2021, and the old station building has served as a restaurant.
Since 2021 the bridge is closed to trains and cars and can only be crossed on foot; the railway now ends at the stops Boren-Lindaunis Schleibrücke Nord and Rieseby Schleibrücke Süd. The bascule span is lifted for shipping only on Mondays around 10:45 and Fridays around 14:45, with exceptions. The operating building stands at the bridge itself.
The steel truss superstructures of the 1927 bridge were reused from the Taterpfahl swing bridge, abandoned in 1920. The bridge also appears in the ZDF series Der Landarzt and in the third Werner film, Werner – Volles Rooäää!!!
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