Bridges and viaducts

New stamps in Luxembourg

On 20 May 2003 Luxembourg issued a series depicting bridges and viaducts.

Adolphe Bridge

The Adolphe Bridge, also called the New Bridge, opened to traffic on 24 July 1903. Built during the reign of Grand Duke Adolphe, whose name it bears, this year it celebrates its one hundred years of existence.
When the bridge was opened, this engineering project, built as an extension of Boulevard Royal to connect the western half of the upper city to the Bourbon Plateau and the central train station district, was the largest stone arch bridge ever constructed. Engineers around the world admired the bridge.

Stierchen Bridge

By following the Corniche path from the Bock rock down to the Grund Gate, a narrow zig-zagging path leads you to the bottom of the valley and to a small footbridge, the Stierchen.
This small stone bridge in the lower town of Luxembourg called Grund, is part of the Wenceslas wall fortifications, which have been added to the World Heritage List by UNESCO.
The medieval Stierchen bridge dates back to the end of the 14th century whereas the wall of which it forms a part was reinforced in the 16th century to meet the needs of the artillery.

Victor Bodson Bridge

The Victor Bodson Bridge, also known as the Hesperange Viaduct, is located on the southeast freeway bypass of Luxembourg City and spans the Alzette valley at a height of 40 m in order to connect the plateaus of Howald and Itsig. The work is a symmetric cable-stayed structure with a single central concrete height and a sheet of radial cables, each half-sheet composed of 16 cables with lengths varying from 42 to 140 m.
Issue: Luxembourg, 20 May 2003

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