Cologne Mulheim Bridge
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The Mülheim Bridge in Cologne
is a suspension bridge
on the river Rhine in Western Germany. Originally completed in 1929 and rebuilt in 1951, it has a main span of 315 metres. It connects the city district Riehl on the west side of the river with Mülheim on the east side, after which the bridge is named.
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
is a suspension bridge
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
on the river Rhine in Western Germany. Originally completed in 1929 and rebuilt in 1951, it has a main span of 315 metres. It connects the city district Riehl on the west side of the river with Mülheim on the east side, after which the bridge is named.