The Lavant Viaduct () is a

motorway A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms ...

bridge crossing the Lavant River on the A2 motorway in

Carinthia Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the Carnic Main ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. With a length of 1,097 m and height of 165 m, it is also the second-highest bridge in Austria. The first (left) bridge was opened on 26 July 1986. Due to cost-cutting reasons, the second (right) bridge was not built, and the section from

Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal () is a spa town in the district of Wolfsberg (district), Wolfsberg in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. Geography The municipality lies in the upper Lavant (river), Lavant valley (''Lavanttal'') ...

to Wolfsberg was open only on the left side. Construction of the right side of the bridge started in 2004 and was finished in 2007.

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Bridges in Austria Bridges completed in 1986 {{Austria-bridge-struct-stub