Neckarbrücke Wendlingen, Railway bridge in Wendlingen am Neckar, Germany
The Neckarbrücke Wendlingen is a railway bridge crossing the Neckar River valley to connect trains running between Stuttgart and Ulm. The structure is made of reinforced concrete and rests on substantial pillars anchored deep in the riverbed.
The bridge is part of lot 1 of the Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed line's planning section 2.1ab, tendered Europe-wide in February 2015 and awarded shortly before Christmas 2015 for around 24 million euros to a consortium of Max Bögl and Leonhard Weiss. The line opened in December 2022, but regular service over the bridge itself was not yet in sight as of February 2026.
The bridge's western abutment marks the official start of the new Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed line, while the tracks planned just west of it belong to the Stuttgart–Wendlingen line built under Stuttgart 21. East of the bridge, a second 58.55 m three-span structure crosses the Plochingen–Immendingen railway, the L 1250 road and a farm track.
The bridge is visible from the Neckar valley and can be viewed from several nearby vantage points. The best views are from the walking paths along the river or from the nearby motorway areas.
The bridge was originally to be built by incremental launching because nature-protection rules limited site access, but it was actually built on falsework. Critics complained that beavers discovered in a nearby lake were not sufficiently considered in the planning.
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