The Dömitz Railway Bridge is a partially complete railway bridge over the Elbe River near the town of Dömitz, Germany. As constructed, it had a length of 1,000 metres and was the longest railway bridge in Germany at that time . It was part of the Wittenberge–Buchholz railway.
Construction on the bridge began on August 9, 1870, with main construction taking place 1870 and 1873. A well-fortified Bridge House was located at each end of the bridge, and it had towers with battlements and embrasures on both sides of the tracks. The foundations were vaulted in casemate-like form. Allied bombing destroyed the bridge on April 20, 1945, and the division of Germany after the war made repairs impossible as the ends of the bridge were located in East Germany and West Germany. The East German government tore down what remained of the bridge on their side of the border in 1987. 550 meters of the bridge are still standing in the former West Germany; this portion of the bridge's arches are under historic preservation orders.
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