Two Loop Bridges in the Baltic Sea – Lookout Königsstuhl and Pier Timmendorfer Strand

While many say that bridges are no destination, for the two bridges described here destination is the only ´raison d´être´. The lookout above the heritage chalk cliff called “Königsstuhl” on the island of Rügen and the “Pier Maritim” at Timmendorfer Strand are footbridges which rather than connecting points A and B bring you back to A. Loops of curved steel boxes supported only by a single cable plane on Rügen or individual single piles in Timmendorfer Strand, serve their purpose by providing visitors with new perspectives and allowing them to intimately experience the remote and delicate surroundings into which they are embedded. This paper introduces the reader to the Conceptual and Structural Design of both bridges and the pertinent construction procedures, in the first case cantilevering out high above the sea and in the second case piloting right in the waters of the Baltic Sea.