Pontes em Dresden

Bridges of Dresden

A concise tour of Dresden’s notable Elbe and valley crossings, highlighting a mix of historic stone arches, iron truss engineering and modern motorway viaducts. The list covers the baroque Augustusbrücke, the cantilevered Loschwitz (“Blue Wonder”), the suspended Schwebebahn funicular, the controversial Waldschlößchen road bridge and key rail and autobahn spans north and south of the city.

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Augustus Bridge

The Augustus Bridge is a bridge in the city of Dresden, in the state Saxony in Germany.

Brücke-Osteuropa / Public domain

Blue Wonder Bridge

Loschwitz Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge over the river Elbe in Dresden the capital of Saxony in Germany.

Norbert Kaiser / CC BY-SA 2.5

Dresden Suspension Railway

The Dresden Suspension Railway is a suspended funicular located in Dresden, Germany, and connects the districts of Loschwitz and…

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Waldschlösschen Bridge

The Waldschlösschen Bridge is a road bridge across the Elbe river in Dresden.

KilianPaulUlrich / CC BY-SA 3.0

Eisenbahnbrücke Niederwartha

Railway bridge over the Elbe at Niederwartha paired with a parallel road bridge; carries regional rail traffic and links Dresden’s northern rail corridors.

Jörg Blobelt / CC BY-SA 4.0

Lockwitztalbrücke

Longest of the eleven major bridges on Autobahn A17 between Dresden and Prague; a long-span concrete viaduct carrying four lanes across the Lockwitz valley.