Øresund Bridge
Øresund Bridge (Danish spelling) Öresund Bridge (Swedish spelling) | |
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Aerial view looking from the Danish side, September 2015 | |
| Coordinates | 55°34′14″N 12°50′58″E / 55.57056°N 12.84944°E |
| Carries | Four lanes of European route E20 Double-track Øresund Line |
| Crosses | Øresund strait (the Sound) |
| Locale | Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden |
| Official name | Øresundsbron (used by company) Øresundsbroen (Danish) Öresundsbron (Swedish) |
| Website | www |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 7,845 metres (25,738 ft) |
| Width | 23.5 metres (77.1 ft) |
| Height | 204 metres (669 ft) |
| Longest span | 490 metres (1,608 ft) |
| Clearance below | 57 metres (187 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Jørgen Nissen, Klaus Falbe Hansen, Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne |
| Engineering design by | Ove Arup & Partners Setec ISC Gimsing & Madsen |
| Constructed by | Hochtief, Skanska, Højgaard & Schultz and Monberg & Thorsen |
| Construction start | 1995 |
| Construction end | 1999 |
| Construction cost | 19.6 billion DKK 25.8 billion SEK 2.6 billion EUR |
| Opened | 1 July 2000 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | c. 18,434 road vehicles (2022) |
| Toll | DKK 455, SEK 673 or EUR 61 (as of 1 January 2024) |
| Location | |
Interactive map of Øresund Bridge (Danish spelling) Öresund Bridge (Swedish spelling) | |
| References | |
| Øresund Tunnel | |
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The Øresund Tunnel passing under the Drogden channel | |
Interactive map of Øresund Tunnel | |
| Overview | |
| Other name | Drogden Tunnel |
| Location | Drogden, Øresund |
| Coordinates | 55°37′9″N 12°42′28″E / 55.61917°N 12.70778°E |
| Status | Active |
| Start | Kastrup |
| End | Peberholm |
| Operation | |
| Opened | 2000 |
| Traffic | Øresund Line, E20 |
| Character | Mainline railway, Highway |
| Technical | |
| Length | 4,050 m (2.52 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
| Electrified | 25 kV AC 50 Hz and 15 kV AC 16.7 Hz |
The Øresund Bridge or Öresund Bridge is a combined railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is the second longest bridge in Europe and combines both roadway and railway in a single structure, consisting of international European route E20 and the Øresund Line respectively. It runs nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island of Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The Øresund Link is completed by the 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) Øresund Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager.
Construction began in 1995 and it opened to traffic on 1 July 2000. The bridge, as part of the Øresund Link, directly connects the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with Mainland Europe, via the Great Belt Fixed Link (constructed 1988–1998) connecting Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula. Both projects helped to lessen the isolation of Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia from the rest of the continent. A data cable also makes the Øresund Link the backbone of Internet data transmission between central Europe and Sweden.
The bridge was designed by Jørgen Nissen and Klaus Falbe Hansen from Ove Arup & Partners, and Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne. The justification for the additional expenditure and complexity related to digging a tunnel for part of the way, rather than raising that section of the bridge, was to avoid interfering with air traffic from the nearby Copenhagen Airport, to provide a clear channel for ships in good weather or bad, and to prevent ice floes from blocking the strait. The bridge received the 2002 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award.