Severins Bridge

The Severins Bridge (sometimes Severin Bridge, German Severinsbrücke) is a cable-stayed bridge in Cologne, Germany. The Severins Bridge opened in 1959,and was the first complete new bridge building in Cologne after the Second World War. The cable-stayed bridge connects the Severinsviertel via the Rhine and the Rhine port with the district of Cologne-Deutz on the right bank of the Rhine as well as the inner-city car traffic with the Ring Roads on the right bank of the Rhine (zuerst Gotenring) and long-distance roads, especially the B 55 and the A 59. The Stadtbahn lines 3 and 4 have a special railway body with the mutual stops Severinstraße and Suevenstraße.