Holcim White
Unusual bridges along the A 72 superhighway
The German superhighway A 72 can look back on a long history. Its construction began in the 1930s to provide a corner connection for the north-south route from Berlin to Munich and for the east-west route from Dresden to Bad Hersfeld. Its purpose was to link up Silesia and East Saxony with Bavaria. But World War II and the division of Germany put a stop to its completion. Construction work on the route between Chemnitz and Leipzig was resumed only following unification of Germany in 1990.
As part of this extension, many different bridges were constructed and are still being built, quite a...
