Zeeland Bridge II
by Dave Bowman
Title
Zeeland Bridge II
Artist
Dave Bowman
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Architectural study of Zeeland Bridge (Zeelandbrug) on a foggy day, Zeeland, Netherlands.
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The Zeeland Bridge (Dutch - Zeelandbrug) is the longest bridge in the Netherlands. The bridge spans the Oosterschelde estuary. It connects the islands of Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland in the province of Zeeland.
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The Zeeland Bridge was built between 1963 and 1965. At the time of its completion, it was the longest bridge of Europe. It has a total length of 5,022 metres, and consists of 48 spans of 95 metres, 2 spans of 72.5 metres and a movable bridge with a width of 40 metres. The province of Zeeland paid for the construction of the bridge, and the costs were recovered by levying tolls for the first 30 years.
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The province of Zeeland is a large river delta situated at the mouth of several major rivers. Most of the province lies below sea level and was reclaimed from the sea by inhabitants over time. What used to be a muddy landscape, flooding at high tide and reappearing at low tide, became a series of small man-made hills that stayed dry at all times. The people of the province would later connect the hills by creating dikes, which led to a chain of dry land that later grew into bigger islands and gave the province its current shape. The shape of the islands has changed over time at the hands of both man and nature.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeelandbrug
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April 1st, 2013
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