Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins

This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.

The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.

List

This list includes both existing and former bridges over the Rhine, sorted by the sections of the river. Within each section, bridges are listed according to their sequence in direction of flow of the river. Railway bridges are marked with an *, tramway bridges with a #. Railway bridges, are listed with the nearest train stations on the left and right banks. Otherwise the municipalities are given.

Vorderrhein

RhB railway bridge over Vorderrhein

Hinterrhein

Alpine Rhine

Railway bridge between Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seerhein

High Rhine

Hydroelectric powerplant, Schaffhausen-Flurlingen road bridge and N4 motorway bridge
The Rheinfall rail bridge, just upstream of the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen
Wooden bridge in Rheinau
Two-leveled Dreirosenbrücke in Basel

Upper Rhine

Maxau–Maximiliansau
Konrad Adenauer Bridge between Ludwigshafen and Mannheim

Middle Rhine

Lower Rhine

The Hohenzollernbrücke in Cologne

Rhine delta

Strategic bridges

Mannheim-Ludwigshafen bridge in 1945

The bridges at Huningue, Rastatt, Rüdesheim (Hindenburgbrücke) and Remagen (Ludendorffbrücke), were built for strategic military reasons only, in order to allow the Imperial German Army and later on, the Wehrmacht, to quickly transport forces by rail to Germany's western border in the event of a war with France. Unlike other bridges built for the same purpose, such as the ones at Koblenz or Cologne, these bridges were of almost no use in peacetime and thus, were never rebuilt, after their destruction during the last months of World War II, except for the one at Rastatt, which was used to supply units of the French Army stationed in the area.

References

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "List of bridges over the Rhine" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)