Brücke am Wasserfall, Magdeburg

The bridge at the waterfall is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Alte Elbe in Magdeburg. It connects the eastern district of Cracau with the western Rotehornpark, which is located on the Elbe island Großer Werder. The structure stands about 70 m below the Cracau weir, which is also called the Cracau waterfall. After about a year of construction, the pedestrian and bicycle bridge was opened to traffic on December 1, 1997.

The bridge train, which is 232.5 m long in total, consists of a 37.5 m long western foreshore bridge made of reinforced concrete and a 195 m long cable-stayed bridge with main girders made of glulam. In the main opening over the Alte Elbe, the single-span cable-stayed bridge has a span of 72m.

The glulam truss structure bridges the Elbe with four reinforced concrete piers. The eastern main pier supports the 35 m high steel pylon, which is inclined towards the river. The A-shaped pylon has two cable levels. At the pylon head, six pairs of steel cables are tensioned in the direction of the main opening and five pairs in the direction of the secondary opening.

The 3.6 m superstructure of the river bridge has a trough cross-section with 2.0 m high main girders arranged on both sides. The main girders are made of glued larch planks and are connected by steel cross frames on which the roadway is arranged.

Near the bridge, on May 9, 1992, Torsten Lamprecht, then 23 years old, died in an attack by 50 neo-Nazis on a party of young leftists and punks. In commemoration of this act, the bridge was to be named after the victim. Instead, in 2013 the path leading to the bridge was given the name Torsten-Lamprecht-Weg.