Soda bridge is a colloquial name for a bridge, which is simply only so there. The reason for the existence of such buildings lies usually in finances lacking. Because of insufficient planning, for reasons of political prestige or for the preservation of the building law then with the bridge construction one began, before the financing of the remaining distance (motorway, railway) was secured.

However in Germany there are numerous examples of unused soda bridges. A prominent example is a motorway bridge at A 1 with Euskirchen, which was built for 56 into the 1970er years for planned A. On 15 June 2001 Cologne skirt volumes the BAP presented its new album "Aff there un zo" and illustrated the bridge on the Cover. The bridge is also well-known as dead bridge of Euskirchen.

2005 came in particular the in the northeast Coburgs as tax steuerverschwendung into the discussion. The new bridge is part of the planned out and new building distance Erfurt, concerning whose planned completion there are no official data. Only few kilometers far away 2006 a further bridge before the execution of construction, some kilometer stands for a long time and 70 meters high bridge over the frog basic lake. Same applies to the at the northern edge the of forest close Ilmenau. The German course confirmed on request of regional newspapers that for the preservation of the building law far punctual construction measures are to be accomplished.

In the Ruhr district a planning for the "new light way" exists north to the motorway A40 since the late 1970ern between the cities Bochum and Dortmund, whose building remained unfinished only begun and after few years. A section of the vierspurig planned motorway, west beginning to the B235 in Castrop Rauxel Merklinde, was only built and handed over to traffic. The route ends after 1,5 km east at the ramps beside a useless "soda bridge" over the Dortmunder road in Dortmund Kirchlinde. The eastern bridge dam was not any longer up-poured. Like that the building construction is as opinion object for approx. 30 years observably, e.g. for the civil engineer students of the universities Bochum and Dortmund.

Also in southern Gefilden there is beautiful example, then a vierspurige motorway bridge waits over the Rhine for its kind-fair connection to the road system in Konstanz since the 80ern.

Another example are bridges, which, the optical organization traffic-technically however redundantly and only serve, so for instance the butterfly bridge in Luebeck are passable.

See also

• Building corpse
• Investment ruin

Related links

• Pdf document of the federation of the taxpayers for the Verschwendung of public funds
• BAP-CD '' aff un zo '' with photo '' of the dead bridge of Euskirchen ''
• Report in the NDR transmission panorama: "Bridge in the nothing - the most expensive prospect platform of Germany"

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