Three-belt bridge (Düren)

Three-chord bridge
	Three-belt bridge with a Euregiobahn Talent railcar
Convicted	High-speed line from Cologne to Aachen
Subjugated	Rur , Rurufer cycle path
place	Düren
Entertained by	DB network
overall length	78 m
Construction height	14.80 m
start of building	1928
completion	1929
opening	August 3, 1930
planner	Robert Tils
	location

50.801111111111 6.4673611111111Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 4 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 3" E

The three-belt bridge is a listed railway three-belt bridge over the Rur in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . The high-speed line from Cologne to Aachen crosses the river on it. The double-track bridge is a three-chord , riveted steel truss bridge with a span of 78 meters and a height of 14.80 meters. The distance between the two lower chords is 13.50 meters.

history

Three-chord bridge from below

The bridge was built between 1928 and 1929 according to plans by Reichsbahnoberrat Robert Tils as the first three-chord bridge in the world and was put into operation on August 3, 1930. It replaced an older, massive stone arch bridge that came from the construction time of the Cologne – Aachen railway line, which opened in 1841, and the remains of which are still visible today. During the Second World War , the three-chord bridge was destroyed and lay in the Rur. But it could be repaired after the war.

The three-girdle bridge has been a listed building since 1989, it is entered under No. 1/072 in the monument list of the city of Düren. In 2014 it was announced in the press that the bridge was in disrepair and that renovation was no longer economically feasible. The three-chord bridge is threatened with demolition.

literature

Dehio manual of German art monuments: North Rhine-Westphalia I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, p. 276.

Web links

Commons : Dreigurtbrücke in Düren - collection of images, videos and audio files

Photo of the inauguration on August 3, 1930
Side perspective photo taken in 1949
Three-belt bridges ( Schweizerische Bauzeitung , volume (year): 97/98 (1931), issue 17)

Individual evidence

↑ History workshop Düren ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Herbert Pawliczek, Heike Kussinger-Stankovic: Monuments directory of Düren 1993. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter ( ISSN 0416-4180 .), No. 82 (1993)
↑ Demolition of bridges: Problems are rolling into the region. from aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on June 7, 2014.

[1] History workshop Düren ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Herbert Pawliczek, Heike Kussinger-Stankovic: Monuments directory of Düren 1993. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter ( ISSN 0416-4180 .), No. 82 (1993)

[az-dreigurtbrücke-3] Demolition of bridges: Problems are rolling into the region. from aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on June 7, 2014.