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Ruegendamm

Germany / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Altefahr /
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Rügendamm is the name of a road and rail bridge connecting the German island Rügen with the city of Stralsund on the mainland of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The Bridge was built in the 1930s.

The Rügendamm is consisting of three parts:

* Strelasundbrücke is the part which is actually a bridge over the Strelasund; its length is 1.8 km
* Road and a rail track on the isle Dänholm, connecting the two bridges and
* Ziegelgrabenbrücke, a bascule bridge over the Ziegelgraben.

In 2004, building of a new bridge was started, called the 2nd Strelasundquerung. The name of this new bridge is Rügenbrücke. The Rügenbrücke was inaugurated on 20 October 2007.

Webcam: www.seysol.de/webcam1.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rügendamm
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Coordinates:   54°18'51"N   13°7'27"E
This article was last modified 10 years ago