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As plans to build a bridge at this location had existed for a century, in 1996, in line with a revised traffic model, the
Dresden City Council agreed to the project. After almost eight years of preparation for the process of obtaining planning permission, a public referendum on whether to build the
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Heritage title if the bridge were built. As a result of this project, the Dresden Elbe Valley was listed in 2006 as an "Endangered World Heritage Site", and in 2009 became only the second
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Dresden Elbe Valley because of the construction of the Waldschlösschenbrücke. It was the first time a European site had ever been delisted, and only the second time anywhere in the world after the
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bridge was held in 2005. This resulted in a majority voting for the bridge. In April 2006, the city council stopped the plans following the UNESCO complaint. The Free State of
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The bridge was designed by ESKR: Eisenloffel and
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