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Great Belt Fixed Link
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bridge–tunnel road and railway crossing of the Great Belt in Denmark
Key facts
- Coordinates
- 55°20′31″N 11°02′10″E / 55.34194°N 11.03611°E / 55.34194; 11.03611
- Carries
- 4 lanes of E20
- Crosses
- Great Belt
- Official name
- Østbroen
- Maintained by
- A/S Storebælt
- Design
- Suspension bridge
- Material
- Concrete and steel
- Total length
- 6,790 metres (22,277 ft)
- Width
- 31 metres (102 ft)
- Height
- 254 metres (833 ft)
- Longest span
- 1,624 metres (5,328 ft)
- Clearance below
- 65 metres (213 ft)
- Designer
- COWI , Ramboll & Dissing+Weitling
- Constructed by
- Hochtief , Skanska , Højgaard & Schultz and Monberg & Thorsen
- Opened
- 14 June 1998
- Toll
- 275 DKK (€37/$40) per car.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Slagelse Municipality
- Image
- Storebæltsbroen from Sjælland.jpg
- Length
- 18
- Connects with
- Copenhagen–Korsør Line
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- terminus
- Korsør Station
- crosses
- Great Belt
- Commons category
- Storebæltsforbindelsen
- inception
- 1997-06-01
- date of official opening
- 1998-06-14
- annual average daily traffic
- 37376
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Encyclopedic overview
The Great Belt Bridge (Danish: Storebæltsbroen) or Great Belt fixed link (Danish: Storebæltsforbindelsen) is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of a road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel between Zealand and the small island Sprogø in the middle of the Great Belt, and a box-girder bridge for both road and rail traffic between Sprogø and Funen. The total length is 18 kilometres (11 mi).
The term Great Belt Bridge commonly refers to the suspension bridge, although it may also be used to mean the box-girder bridge, especially when discussing the railway, or the link in its entirety. Together with the New Little Belt Bridge, the Great Belt link provides a continuous road and rail connection between Copenhagen and the Danish mainland (the Jutland Peninsula of the European continent). It has the world's seventh-longest main span (1.6 km (1 mi)). Operation and maintenance of the bridge are performed by A/S Storebælt under Sund & Bælt. Maintenance and the original construction are financed by tolls on vehicles and trains making use of the bridge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Belt Fixed Link” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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