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    The Maxau Rhine Bridges (Rheinbrücken Maxau) connect the Baden-Württemberg city of Karlsruhe and the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Wörth in Germany. They...
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    by bridges. This list includes both existing and former bridges over the Rhine, sorted by the sections of the river. Within each section, bridges are...
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    occurs once in 200 years) of the Rhine to a discharge of 5,000 cubic metres per second (180,000 cu ft/s) at the Maxau gauge station, that is, a reduction...
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    the first permanent railroad on a floating bridge. (In a temporary capacity, the Maxau Pontoon Rhine Bridge of 1865 in Germany preceded it.[citation needed])...
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    Winden–Wörth section was opened in 1864. A year later, the gap between the Rhine and the Maxau Railway (Maxaubahn), which had been opened in 1862, was closed. The...
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    Mühlburger Tor (to the west of central Karlsruhe) and from there run on the Maxau Railway (Maxaubahn) to the old Karlsruhe central station (this route is...
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    completed. Since 1980, part of the lake in Knielingen has formed the Altrhein Maxau nature reserve. The Burgau is another nature reserve in Knielingen. Knielingen...
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    Germans had blown all Rhine bridges from Ludwigshafen northward. Of three that remained upstream, the southernmost, the Maxau Rhine Bridge at Maximiliansau...
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    (Pfalz) was first realised in 1865 with a pontoon bridge from Karlsruhe–Maxau as well as a link between Mannheim and Ludwigshafen in 1867. A connexion...
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    Maximiliansau and the Maxau Railway (Maxaubahn) leading from Karlsruhe to Maxau was closed with the completion of the bridge over the Rhine. Thus, continuous...
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