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This article is about the old bridge. For the new bridge, see Little Belt Bridge (1970).


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The bridge seen from Snoghøj


The Little Belt Bridge (Gamle Lillebæltsbro), also known as The Old Little Belt Bridge, is a truss bridge over the Little Belt strait in Denmark. The first bridge to have been constructed over the strait, it spans from Snoghøj on Jutland to Kongebrogaarden on Funen. It is owned by the state and Banedanmark, the Danish railway authority, is responsible for its maintenance. The bridge was the first step in linking the three parts of Denmark by road, with the second step completed with the Great Belt Bridge in June 1998; previously, only boats and later ferries had been used to transport people over the belts.

Construction of the bridge began in 1929 and it was opened for traffic on May 14, 1935. It is 1,178 metres long, 20.5 metres wide and 33 metres high. On the bridge there are two railway tracks, two narrow lanes for cars to cross as well as a sidewalk for pedestrians.

When the new Little Belt Bridge came into use in 1970, the bridge lost its function as the main traffic line for cars between Funen and Jutland; however, it is still used as the only railway bridge between Jutland and Funen and thus the only railway line connecting Jutland with Zealand as well, as well as to carry traffic between Fredericia and Middelfart and their neighbouring villages.

Construction

No mass machinery was used in the construction of the bridge at the time. The bases of the piles were lowered into the sea from boats according to precise calculations, and molds both for the piles and each end of the bridge were first constructed of wood and later manually filled with cement from buckets.
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A mobile maintenance scaffold attached to the bridge

Maintenance

Like all bridges, it requires constant maintenance. During the first decades after its construction, a group of workers would begin painting the entire steel structure from one end, proceed to the other and begin all over again once that was finished.

Five to thirteen people work on the bridge at all times.

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The New Little Belt Bridge (Nye Lillebæltsbro) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Little Belt strait between Jutland (Jylland) and the island of Funen (Fyn). The bridge is 1700 metres long, the main span is 600 metres, the pylons reaching a height of 120 metres, and the
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Little Belt (Danish: Lillebælt) is a strait between the Danish island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula.

The belt is about 50km long and 800m to 28km wide, the maximum depth is approximately 75m. Numerous small islands are located within the belt.
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Snoghøj is a town in Denmark (at 55.52°N and 9.72°E), to the south of Fredericia, between Erritsø and Middelfart that developed because of the Højskole that was built there.
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Egeskov Castle is a Funish landmark


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Great Belt Fixed Link (Danish: Den faste Storebæltsforbindelse) is the fixed link between the Danish islands of Zealand (Korsør) and Funen (Nyborg) across the Great Belt.
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The New Little Belt Bridge (Nye Lillebæltsbro) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Little Belt strait between Jutland (Jylland) and the island of Funen (Fyn). The bridge is 1700 metres long, the main span is 600 metres, the pylons reaching a height of 120 metres, and the
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Fredericia (IPA: ['fʀɛðɐ̥ɪɕa]) is a town located in Fredericia municipality in the eastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, in a sub-region known locally as Trekanten, or
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Middelfart is a town in central Denmark, located in Middelfart municipality on the island of Funen (Danish: Fyn), with a population of 13,330 (2003).

Near it are two big bridges over the Little Belt sea strait.
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