page_title: Mangfall Bridge
section_title: 1948 temporary bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Mangfall Bridge / 1948 temporary bridge
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside the Mangfall Bridge, Bavaria Deutsch: Mangfallbrücke: Fussgängerebene unter der Fahrbahn
context_page_description: The Mangfall Bridge is a motorway bridge across the valley of the Mangfall north of Weyarn in Upper Bavaria, Germany, which carries Bundesautobahn 8 between Munich and Rosenheim. The original bridge, designed by German Bestelmeyer, opened in January 1936 as one of the first large bridges in the Reichsautobahn system and was influential in its design. Destroyed at the end of World War II, this bridge was replaced with a temporary structure in 1948; the current bridge consists of a replacement built in 1958–60 to a design by Gerd Lohmer and Ulrich Finsterwalder and a second span for traffic in one direction which was added in the late 1970s when the autobahn was widened to six lanes.
context_section_description: Beginning in 1946, the bridge was rebuilt. A temporary steel truss bridge of the type designed by Gottwalt Schaper and used on the Reichsbahn was used on the rebuilt pylons, carrying one lane of traffic in each direction, and in 1958 this was moved to one side and beside it to the south, a supplemental pillar was erected beside each pylon. When the new replacement roadbed was complete, the temporary bridge was disassembled and the supplemental pillars demolished.
caption: Pedestrian and bicycle path on lower level of 1960 bridge
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