{"id":374,"date":"2010-11-07T04:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-11-07T04:03:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:03:41","slug":"the-a61-autobahn-bridge-over-the-mosel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/07\/the-a61-autobahn-bridge-over-the-mosel\/","title":{"rendered":"The A61 Autobahn bridge over the Mosel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 35 years I have driven over this bridge countless times, always impressed by its engineering.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The A61 autobahn runs from the Dutch-German border at Venlo to Hockenheim, where it connects with the A6 Autobahn. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/2010-11-07.jpg\" title=\"A61 Mosel bridge\" alt=\"A61 Mosel bridge\" height=\"206\" width=\"275\" \/> The A61 provides a convenient route from the Netherlands to southern Germany and points beyond, so it is sometimes called the &quot;Holland line&quot;. The first time I drove on this freeway was in June 1974 when Monica and I moved from Bonn to Rheinfelden on the German-Swiss border. The autobahn was not completely finished and we had to detour using local roads for part of the trip. It was finished a couple of years later. The A61 bridge over the Mosel river is one of the most impressive autobahn bridges in Germany. Just over a half mile long, it carries traffic some 445 feet above the Mosel river valley. It is quite a sight to cross the bridge and see the river below. On the north side of the bridge there is a rest stop where you can visit some old Roman ruins dating back to around the time of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 35 years I have driven over this bridge countless times, always impressed by its engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}