An Engineering Masterpiece

Leave it to the Germans. Here is a water bridge in Germany built over a 6 year period. The idea for this "bathtub bridge" was born in 1919 and construction started in the 1930's. Construction was halted in during the second world war in 1942. During the cold war, Germany split and the project was shelved indefinitely. The project was resurrected in the 1990's when reunification brought Germany back together.


Costing around a half billion Euros, it took 6 years to complete. It will connect Berlin's inland harbour with ports along the Rhine River. The water bridge is almost 1 kilometer in length and took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build. It's important to us to make the waterways attractive to industry as a safe and environmentally friendly transportation way, A German Transportation Minister Manfred Stolpe said.



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