Pierre Pflimlin Bridge

The Pierre Pflimlin Bridge (French: Pont Pierre Pflimlin) is a 957-metre (3,140 ft) long motorway cantilever bridge over the river Rhine, with a main span measuring 205 metres (673 ft).

It connects Germany and France, at Kehl and Strasbourg.

It is named after Pierre Pflimlin, a former French prime minister, and was opened in 2002.

Planned for several decades, it was built during the late 1990s and early 2000s by the construction companies Bilfinger Berger and Max Früh.

[1] The funding for its construction was provided 55.5% by France, 38.6% by Germany and 5.9% by the European Union.

The bridge seen from the north.
The bridge being built over the Rhine south of Strasbourg .
One of the piers, a caisson floated to the site and anchored with deep foundation piles .