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Rhine Bridges by Thomas Riehle

Rhine Bridges Thomas Riehle ebook
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges GmbH
ISBN: 9783936681741
Page: 240
Format: pdf

In mid-summer he arrived at the mighty Rhine. This article is about temporary or permanent floating bridges. An eyewitness account of the fight for an intact bridge over the Rhine River. In 55 BC Julius Caesar marched through Europe, crushing the rebellious tribes in the North. Army troops cross the Rhine on a heavy pontoon bridge, March, 1945[. The city of Basel is a traditional Swiss bridgehead on River Rhine. The rest of the division, trapped in a small pocket west of the bridge, had to be evacuated on 25 September. In 310 under Constantine a bridge was built over the Rhine at Cologne. Its length also makes the most northerly Rhine bridge in Germany interesting, especially for engineers. A couple of bridges connects Grossbasel (south) and Kleinbasel (north). Measuring 135 metres in length, it was completed in 1901 and is today the only remaining wooden bridge spanning the Rhine. 1 quote from The Race for the Rhine Bridges 1940,1944,1945: 'the French First Army near Speyer and Strasbourg. Rising in Switzerland and ultimately emptying into the North Sea in the Netherlands, the Rhine is one of Europe's major rivers, and an essential transport artery.