Suspension Bridges Crossing Glomma

This is a list of all 30 bridges from the suspension bridge inventory crossing Glomma. Please note that different rivers with the same name will be grouped together. For example, selecting 'Bear Creek' shows bridges across several different Bear Creeks. Also, similarly named rivers are grouped separately. For example, 'River Dee' (UK) bridges are grouped separately from 'Dee River' (Australia) bridges. Wherever you see a Bridgemeister ID number click it to isolate the bridge on its own page.

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1854: Sarp

Sarpsborg, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:4502 (added 2020-05-02)
Year Completed:1854
Name:Sarp
Also Known As:Sarpsbro, Sarpsbrua
Location:Sarpsborg, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
At or Near Feature:Sarpefossen
Coordinates:59.276684 N 11.132073 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Eyebar (iron)
Suspended Spans:3
Main Span:1 x 47 meters (154.2 feet)
Side Spans:1 x 23 meters (75.5 feet),
1 x 15 meters (49.2 feet)

Notes:

  • Originally constructed as a typical eyebar suspension bridge. Reconstructed in 1879 to support a three-span lenticular rail bridge on top of the suspension bridge towers, creating an upper deck for rail traffic. The original deck was suspended from the lower chord of the lenticular trusses.
  • See Tamaris-les-Forges - Alès vicinity, Gard, France. Another interesting hybrid rail and suspension bridge.

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Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

1906: Auma

Auma, Tynset, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3917 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1906
Name:Auma
Location:Auma, Tynset, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.21952 N 10.65307 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 67 meters (219.8 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Removed prior to replacement by a truss bridge constructed on the same piers in 1961.

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1908: Erlinesset

Tolga, Østerdalen, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3911 (added 2020-03-15)
Year Completed:1908
Name:Erlinesset
Location:Tolga, Østerdalen, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.42619 N 11.09129 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:2
Main Spans:2 x 42.5 meters (139.4 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Restored 1951 and 1999.

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1913: Bellingmo

Bellingmo, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3920 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1913
Name:Bellingmo
Location:Bellingmo, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.02715 N 10.78453 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 80 meters (262.5 feet) estimated

1918: Rånåsfoss

Rånåsfoss, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:4084 (added 2020-04-04)
Year Completed:1918
Name:Rånåsfoss
Location:Rånåsfoss, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.030429 N 11.329303 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Replaced
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Main Span:1 x 184 meters (603.7 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Patrick S. O'Donnell notes: "This bridge was built in 1918 as a provisional suspension bridge to facilitate the construction of the dam a little less than a half kilometer downstream. Then it was built over and transformed into the 1927 Rånåsfoss bridge. It appears everything of the original bridge was replaced or new, except the lattice towers which in effect became rebar and are now encased in concrete. New anchorage pits were dug and new anchor eyebars placed within to accept the new main cables."
  • Replaced by 1927 Rånåsfoss - Rånåsfoss, Viken, Norway.

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1921: Høistad

Høistad, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3908 (added 2020-03-15)
Year Completed:1921
Name:Høistad
Location:Høistad, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.50644 N 11.26111 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Wire
Main Span:1 x 36 meters (118.1 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Based on historic aerial images, removed 1953-1963.

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1923: Atna

Atna, Stor-Elvdal, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3921 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1923
Name:Atna
Location:Atna, Stor-Elvdal, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:61.72890 N 10.82639 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 150 meters (492.1 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Rehabilitated, 1989.

1927: Bingsfoss

Sørumsand, Lillestrøm, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3931 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1927
Name:Bingsfoss
Location:Sørumsand, Lillestrøm, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:59.98854 N 11.26129 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed, 1978
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 132 meters (433.1 feet) estimated

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1927: Rånåsfoss

Rånåsfoss, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3930 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1927
Name:Rånåsfoss
Location:Rånåsfoss, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.031390 N 11.327592 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 184 meters (603.7 feet) estimated

Notes:

External Links:

Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

1928: Åbrua

Tynset, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3914 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1928
Name:Åbrua
Also Known As:Aaen
Location:Tynset, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.288617 N 10.823438 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Replaced, 1980
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 109 meters (357.6 feet) estimated

Notes:

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1936: Elverum

Elverum, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3926 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1936
Name:Elverum
Also Known As:Nybrua
Location:Elverum, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.88287 N 11.55644 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (two-lane), with walkway
Status:In use (last checked: 2023)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 160 meters (524.9 feet) estimated

External Links:

Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

1936: Kveberg

Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3919 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1936
Name:Kveberg
Location:Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.07803 N 10.69445 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 90 meters (295.3 feet) estimated

1943: Tynset

Tynset, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3912 (added 2020-03-15)
Year Completed:1943
Name:Tynset
Location:Tynset, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.28051 N 10.77184 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed, 2000
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 130 meters (426.5 feet) estimated

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1944: Fossum

Askim and Spydeberg, Østfold, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3932 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1944
Name:Fossum
Location:Askim and Spydeberg, Østfold, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:59.60155 N 11.09936 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed (last checked: 1965)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 84 meters (275.6 feet)

Notes:

  • Built as a temporary replacement for the 1856 two-span wood Fossum bridge damaged during 1940 hostilities. The suspension bridge was built directly over the 1856 bridge resulting in an odd appearance with minimal clearance between the two bridges.
  • Replaced by 1961 Fossum - Askim and Spydeberg, Østfold, Norway.
Scan of a color slide, collection of David Denenberg

1949: Brandval

Brandval, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3928 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1949
Name:Brandval
Location:Brandval, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.31928 N 12.01030 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane), with walkway
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 187 meters (613.5 feet) estimated

1949: Kongsvinger

Kongsvinger, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3929 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1949
Name:Kongsvinger
Location:Kongsvinger, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.18934 N 11.99692 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (two-lane), with walkway
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 104 meters (341.2 feet) estimated

Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

1950: Glomstadfoss

Åsta, Åmot, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3925 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1950
Name:Glomstadfoss
Location:Åsta, Åmot, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:61.07884 N 11.36695 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 100 meters (328.1 feet) estimated

1955: Opphus

Opphus, Rena, Hedmark, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3924 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1955
Name:Opphus
Location:Opphus, Rena, Hedmark, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:61.330527 N 11.259730 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 120 meters (393.7 feet) estimated

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1958: Stormyrbrua

Os, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3910 (added 2020-03-15)
Year Completed:1958
Name:Stormyrbrua
Location:Os, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.48435 N 11.17481 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 82 meters (269 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Restored, 1995.

1959: Glomdals

Elverum, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3927 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1959
Name:Glomdals
Location:Elverum, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:60.87215 N 11.55240 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 97 meters (318.2 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Connects the Glomdals Museum and Norwegian Forestry Museum's open-air museum crossing the Prestfossen waterfalls.

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1961: Fossum

Askim and Spydeberg, Østfold, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:1325 (added 2004-04-28)
Year Completed:1961
Name:Fossum
Location:Askim and Spydeberg, Østfold, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:59.603194 N 11.102166 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (two-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2018)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 125 meters (410.1 feet)

Notes:

External Links:

Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

1962: Vamma

Askim and Skiptvet, Østfold, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3933 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1962
Name:Vamma
Location:Askim and Skiptvet, Østfold, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:59.53805 N 11.16776 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (two-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 180 meters (590.6 feet) estimated

1968: Sundfloen

Koppang, Stor-Elvda, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3923 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1968
Name:Sundfloen
Location:Koppang, Stor-Elvda, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:61.56972 N 11.02122 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (two-lane, heavy vehicles), with walkway
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 170 meters (557.7 feet)

Notes:

  • Deck strengthened in 2015 to accommodate heavier timber trucks up to 60 tons.

1980: Åbrua

Tynset, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3915 (added 2020-03-20)
Year Completed:1980
Name:Åbrua
Also Known As:Aaen
Location:Tynset, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.288074 N 10.823862 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked: 2019)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 106 meters (347.8 feet) estimated

Notes:

External Links:


2020: Neby

Neby, Tynset, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:4515 (added 2020-05-02)
Year Completed:2020
Name:Neby
Location:Neby, Tynset, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.28211 N 10.75636 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use (last checked: 2020)
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:3
Main Spans:2 x 30.25 meters (99.2 feet),
1 x 33 meters (108.3 feet)

External Links:

  • DigitaltMuseum - Tynset, Neby bru. Patick S. O'Donnell writes: "The 2020 Neby bridge is being built on the same alignment of the last bridge to stand here from 1843 to 1943. That century old bridge was demolished upon completion of the 1943 Tynset suspension bridge less than a mile upstream. The 1843 bridge was the third bridge here and consisted of three timber arch spans with stone abutments on the banks, and a pair of stone piers within the river. Sediment had formed tiny islands where those pair of piers once stood and from these islets two piers will rise to support two of the four suspension bridge towers, with the other two towers close to where the abutments were."

(footbridge)

Os vicinity, Sweden - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:1677 (added 2005-03-25)
Name:(footbridge)
Location:Os vicinity, Sweden
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.484333 N 11.175233 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, OpenStreetMap
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use (last checked: 2005)
Main Cables:Wire

(suspension bridge)

Galåa, Røros, Trøndelag, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3907 (added 2020-03-14)
Name:(suspension bridge)
Location:Galåa, Røros, Trøndelag, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.54824 N 11.28900 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Status:Removed
Main Span:1 x 66.5 meters (218.2 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Based on historical aerial images, completed by 1937, still in existence in 1969, and removed by 2003.

(suspension bridge)

Spydeberg vicinity, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:4457 (added 2020-04-25)
Name:(suspension bridge)
Location:Spydeberg vicinity, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
At or Near Feature:Solbergfoss
Coordinates:59.637980 N 11.153810 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Wire

Notes:

  • Temporary suspension bridge used in the construction of the dam at Solbergfoss Coordinates are approximate.
  • An accident occurred in 1920 where it appears the bridge was overloaded and a main cable gave way causing a couple of trolley cars hauling rocks and workers to be thrown from the bridge including two men that disappeared.

External Links:


Borregaard

Sarpsborg, Viken, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:4470 (added 2020-04-26)
Name:Borregaard
Location:Sarpsborg, Viken, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:59.274801 N 11.126999 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Pipeline
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Wire
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 135 meters (442.9 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Built before 1938. Removed at some point between 1963 and 1978.
  • There was a simple (drooping) suspension bridge immediately adjacent to this pipeline bridge. The simple suspension bridge is not tracked in the Bridgemeister inventory.

External Links:

Postcard, collection of Jochem Hollestelle

Sjulhusbrua

Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway - Glomma
Bridgemeister ID:3918 (added 2020-03-20)
Name:Sjulhusbrua
Location:Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway
Crossing:Glomma
Coordinates:62.09653 N 10.64445 E
Maps:Acme, GeoHack, Google, kart.1881.no, OpenStreetMap
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Removed
Main Cables:Wire (steel)
Suspended Spans:1
Main Span:1 x 82.5 meters (270.7 feet) estimated

Notes:

  • Based on historic aerial images, removed after 1969 and before 1980.

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