Wommen Viaduct
Road bridge in Germany
The Wommen Viaduct is an arch bridge built between 1938 and 1940 near Wommen, Germany, as part of the Reichsautobahn system. It is a 26.5 metres (87 ft) tall and 303.8 metres (997 ft) long motorway bridge on the Bundesautobahn 4. Because of World War II, it was left half-finished, and because of the German division the one completed side was closed until 1990. After German reunification, it was completed in 1993 with a new bridge for the second lane.
“Wommen Viaduct” enters the record as road bridge in Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wommen, Viaduct and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Wommen Viaduct” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wommen, Viaduct and Road provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2390102. Authority coordinates are 51.017, 10.118. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1940, 1990 and 1993.
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