The Saale-Elster Viaduct is a railway bridge along the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway in Central Germany.[1] It was completed in 2013 and opened in 2015. The viaduct is 6465m (21,211feet) long and thereby the longest bridge in Germany and the longest high-speed rail bridge in Europe. It includes a branch of 2112m (6,929feet) length.
The prestressed concrete box girder bridge carries a Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express (ICE) line over the extended floodplain at the confluence of the Saale and White Elster rivers, a natural habitat of wild fauna and flora south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. The branch provides a connection to the parallel Halle–Bebra railway line.