Overview

• The drilling phase on the Bad Schandau railway bridge started August 6 and will require a half-closure of the B172 outbound toward Königstein.
• Boreholes south of the tracks will be completed by August 11 before similar investigations north of the line near the station.
• All ground investigations are scheduled to wrap up by the end of August and feed into the next stage of interim and permanent bridge planning.
• These geotechnical studies are part of a wider safety assessment program for 1970s prestressed concrete spans in Saxony.
• The bridge is among several DDR-era structures built with Hennigsdorfer prestressing steel that have faced special inspections since the Dresden Carolabrücke partial collapse.