31 soldiers from the Salzburg Pioneer Construction Company dismantled a D-bridge in Radstadt over the past few days. The bridge over the northern Taurach, which was built in February, served as a bypass for construction work on the local infrastructure. The bridge was excavated with the help of a civilian mobile crane.
From February 23 to 25, 42 soldiers from Pioneer Battalion 2 constructed a D-bridge over the northern Taurach under the leadership of the Pioneer Construction Company in Radstadt. The bridge in the “E1v-e, single-deck, reinforced single-lane” design is seven spans (21.33 meters) long. It was built according to the specifications of the Salzburg Bridge Construction Office. In order to optimally prepare the conscripts – both for the construction and now for the dismantling of the bridge – the Salzburg pioneers carried out various training courses, such as on the D-bridge equipment itself, on personal protective equipment against falls and on light pioneer machines. The soldiers also used heavy engineering equipment such as a wheel loader or a telescopic handler to dismantle the bridge. The D-bridge device is an operational bridge device manufactured by Krupp and is primarily used for the rapid replacement of destroyed bridges or bridges with insufficient load-bearing capacity. D-bridges can be used both temporarily and permanently.
