Überführung Weg Hesseler, Abandoned prestressed concrete road bridge in Vellern, Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The Überführung Weg Hesseler is a 33-metre-span prestressed concrete road bridge built in 1938 over the Bundesautobahn 2 near Beckum. Its deck consists of four 1.6-metre-high I-beams spaced 1.4 metres apart, joined by a 27-centimetre-thick reinforced concrete slab. The bridge was moved 1.5 kilometres to the Vellern rest area car park in September 2012 and is now accessible on foot.

Built in 1938 as part of the Reichsautobahn between Dortmund and Hannover, the bridge carried a farm track over the A2 at kilometre 371.9. It was one of the world's first bridges built with bonded prestressed concrete, using Eugène Freyssinet's patents; the contractor Wayss & Freytag held the German licence. In 1967 a tanker collision damaged a girder, and in 1969 the deck was raised. On 29–30 September 2012 the 300-tonne superstructure was moved 1.5 km to the Vellern service area car park.

The bridge's name comes from the Hesseler farmstead whose access path it carried over the new Reichsautobahn. In September 2012 the 1938 deck was moved 1.5 km to the Vellern service-area car park on the Dortmund–Hannover carriageway, where it now stands as a walkable monument with benches. The 300,000-euro cost of that relocation drew criticism from the Bund der Steuerzahler.

The bridge deck was moved in September 2012 to the A2 rest area Vellern on the Dortmund–Hannover carriageway, about 1.5 km from its original site. There it was restored and made walkable, with seating installed. The original crossing over the motorway no longer exists.

The 33-metre deck was moved intact 1.5 km to the Vellern motorway service area car park over the weekend of 29–30 September 2012, where it now stands restored, walkable and fitted with benches. The relocation cost 300,000 euros, a sum criticised by the Bund der Steuerzahler and national media.