Old Nahe Bridge (Bad Kreuznach)
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 28 ″ E
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| place | Bad Kreuznach ( Germany ) | |
| construction | Arch bridge with vaulted vaults | |
| overall length | 135 m | |
| width | 9.0 m | |
| Number of openings | 5 + 1 | |
| Clear width | Max. 12.55 m or 49.4 m | |
| construction time | 1332/1956 | |
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The Alte Nahebrücke is a bridge in Bad Kreuznach that spans the Nahe and Mühlenteich, a tributary of the Nahe, in the course of Mannheimer Strasse . Along with the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt and the Inner Bridge in Esslingen am Neckar , the stone bridge is one of the bridges still in existence in Germany that are built on with houses.
history
The city lord Count Simon II (Sponheim-Kreuznach) had the old Nahe bridge built around 1300 as a replacement for a wooden bridge to connect the settlements that had arisen on both sides of the Nahe. The bridge structure was first mentioned in 1332 when the church on Wörthinsel, today's St. Paul's Church, was consecrated . The stone bridge originally had eight arched openings, two of which cross the mill pond, three are arranged as a flood bridge on the Wörthinsel and three spanned the left Nahe main arm. The bridge houses were first mentioned in a document in 1495. Starting at the mill pond, the four buildings stand on the first four upstream bridge piers and were placed under monument protection from 1980 to 1983 . On the fifth pillar there was once a bridge tower, which at times also served as a prison. On the sixth pillar in the Nahe there was a Christ cross as a baroque stone image from 1720 and a statue of the bridge patron saint John of Nepomuk was placed on the seventh pillar . The house on the downstream side of the fourth pillar is founded on the Wörthinsel and therefore cannot be called a bridge house. Craftsmen and merchants lived in the buildings. On March 17, 1945, the three arches over the Nahe main arm were blown up by German troops. After major discussions in the city, a single-span, haunched prestressed concrete bridge was built in 1956 instead of the arch bridge . At the same time, the remaining arch bridge was widened by two meters. The construction costs amounted to 1.14 million DM.
Since July 2018, the Bad Kreuznach Memorial on the Nahe Bridge has been commemorating the deported and murdered Bad Kreuznach Jews during the National Socialist era .
construction
The approximately 135 m long bridge was built in the old area as a natural stone bridge with sandstone and porphyry . Since the widening, the bridge has a carriageway width of 6.0 m and sidewalks on both sides with widths between 2.0 m and 3.0 m. At the narrow point between the two houses on the fourth pillar, the old carriageway width of 4.0 m is available.
The first three arches (from the eastern bank) have a clear width of 10.5 m, the next spans 10.8 m, followed by an arch with 12.55 m. The adjoining prestressed concrete bridge has a clear width of 49.4 m; there were originally three arches of 12.34 m each. The first pillar is 5.5 m wide, the next 5.8 m and the two following 6.0 m. The final pillar is also the abutment of the prestressed concrete bridge and is 7.33 m wide. The two pillars in the vicinity, which no longer exist today, were 6.2 m wide.
The arches of the old bridge are 9.0 m wide since the renovation, the reinforced concrete deck 11.0 m. The cross-section of the prestressed concrete bridge consists of two single-cell, 2.3 m wide hollow boxes, which are connected to one another by an 11.2 m wide reinforced concrete deck.
See also
literature
- Werner Vogt: Nahe Bridge Bad Kreuznach. In: Stone bridges in Germany. Beton-Verlag Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0240-9 , pp. 394-398.
- Rolf Schaller: The New Construction of the Old Nahe Bridge - The Destruction of a Historic Cityscape (May 31, 2010) on www.regionalgeschichte.net
- Entry by Anne Zaschel (University of Koblenz-Landau) on bridge houses on the Old Nahe Bridge in Bad Kreuznach (2014) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
