Talbrücke Twiste, Highway bridge in Höxter district, Germany.
Talbrücke Twiste, also called Twistetalbrücke, is a 637 m long twin box-girder bridge of prestressed concrete on the Bundesautobahn 44 between Welda and Wormeln. The two parallel carriageway structures each rest on eight piers and nine steel and prestressed-concrete segments, crossing the Twiste valley in a slight arc at a maximum height of about 47 m.
The bridge was built between 1968 and 1971 as part of the Bundesautobahn 44 highway network expansion in North Rhine-Westphalia. This infrastructure project represented the broader postwar development of major roads across the region.
The bridge carries the name of the Twiste river it crosses and of the valley it spans; locals also call it Twistetalbrücke. Underneath, the disused Warburg–Sarnau railway line has been converted into the Twisteweg cycle path, which passes directly beneath the twin decks.
The bridge sits between the Warburg and Breuna highway interchanges and carries both expressway traffic and the regional road. A separate cycling and pedestrian path runs beneath it, allowing non-motorized traffic to pass through the valley without mixing with cars.
The structure sits at different elevations on its two ends, with the northwest side at 218 meters and the southeast side at 230 meters above sea level. This slope was necessary to span the rising valley terrain effectively.
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