Magdeburg Water Bridge, the World’s Longest Navigable Aqueduct

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Magdeburg Water Bridge

The picture says it all, assuming you believe what you’re seeing. This is in fact the world’s longest navigable aqueduct, named the Magdeburg Water Bridge.

It connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittellandkanal, crossing over the Elbe River and has a total length of 918 metres (3,012 ft).  Built with 68,000 cubic meters of concrete and 24,000 metric tons of steel, the bridge was completed in 2003.

Dimensions:

Longest span 106 m
Total length 918 m (690 m over land and 228 m over water)
Width 34 m
Water depth 4.25 m
Clearance below 90.00 m x 6.25 m
Magdeburg Water Bridge (Wasserstraßenkreuz)

Magdeburg Water Bridge (Wasserstraßenkreuz), photo by Patrick Schön

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6 Responses to Magdeburg Water Bridge, the World’s Longest Navigable Aqueduct

  1. avatar R. says:
    October 3, 2012 at 10:52 am

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

    I like that one :)

  2. avatar Lawrence KC Lau says:
    October 4, 2012 at 4:16 am

    The bridge crossing the bridge.

  3. avatar Jerry A. Rudd says:
    October 4, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Certainly an inspiration to become a civil engineer.

  4. avatar Fred Bursch says:
    October 4, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Very cool

  5. avatar Will Tucker says:
    October 8, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    So where in this scenario is sea level?

  6. avatar Manish Joshi says:
    November 13, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    waw wht a grt bridge…..