Link vor einer Linie geht nicht !?

<div class="footerbox" style="text-align: center;">


    <hr class="line" style="width: 50%;">

    <span class="footertextLink">     
        <a class="linkx" href="https://www.google.de/">Information</a>         
    </span>



          <span class="footertextText">     
             Nachricht2
    </span>

            <span class="footertextText">     
             Nachricht1
    </span>

    <span class="footertextTextCopyright">     
             © by BLABLA
    </span>
</div>

.linkx:link {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #686868;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    line-height: 1.5em;
}




.linkx:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #686868;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
       line-height: 1.5em;
}




.linkx:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #444;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
       line-height: 1.5em;
}




.linkx:active {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #444;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
       line-height: 1.5em;
}




.footerbox{
	position: absolute;
	bottom: 0; 
    margin:0;
 	left: 0;
    padding:0;
    height:80px;
    width: 100%;   
}
.footertextLink{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #6E6E6E;
	padding: 50px;
	font-size: 16px;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-family: Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
}




.footertextText{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #6E6E6E;
	padding: 50px;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
}




.footertextTextCopyright{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #6E6E6E;
	padding: 180px;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
}




.footertext:link:hover{
	color: #5C5C5C;
}




.line{
  background-color:#BDBDBD;
  color:#BDBDBD;
  border:#BDBDBD;
  height:0.5px;
}