Old Niederräder Bridge

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 53 ″  E

Old Niederräder Bridge
View from the southeast
use	Railway bridge footbridge
Crossing of	Main
place	Gutleutviertel , Niederrad
construction	Parallel steel framework
overall length	249 m
width	11 m
Headroom	7.40 m
construction time	1880-1882, 1946
location

The Alte Niederräder Bridge is a railway bridge in Frankfurt am Main .

location

The Alte Niederräder Bridge spans the Main at Main km 31.0 between the Gutleutviertel in northern Main and the Niederrad district in southern Main . It connects the main station with the Niederrad station and thus serves the traffic on the following routes:

• Mainbahn ,
• Riedbahn (Frankfurt - Mannheim Hauptbahnhof ), including the line of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn between the main station and Riedstadt-Goddelau wrong.
• High-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main
• Connection curve to the Forsthaus junction (Frankfurt)

There is a pedestrian walkway on the west side of the bridge . This was a great relief for the Niederrad residents, who had to take a ferry to Griesheim or make long detours to the next bridge before the bridge was built.

Technical Equipment

It is a steel truss bridge . It carries a standard gauge pair of tracks.

In terms of traffic, it represents a bottleneck in the connection to Frankfurt Central Station, as its pair of tracks has to accommodate traffic from five axes from the north and traffic from three axes from the south.

history

The bridge, like the Main-Neckar bridge further upstream, was planned as an approach for the new main train station ( Frankfurter Centralbahnhof ) as part of the rail traffic plan of the Frankfurt Directorate of the Royal Prussian State Railways, which was founded in 1871 . Built between 1880 and 1882, it went into operation on January 16, 1882 for freight traffic and on August 18, 1888 for passenger traffic.

In 1925–28 the pillars were reinforced by the MAN Gustavsburg plant and the structure was replaced by a steel truss bridge. In March 1945 the bridge - like all other Frankfurt Main bridges - was blown up by Wehrmacht pioneers. Reconstruction began in August 1945 and it was able to be put back into operation in January 1946.

The bridge was originally just called Niederräder Bridge , until between 1976 and 1979 a second railway bridge, the Neue Niederräder Brücke , was built parallel to it for the S-Bahn towards Frankfurt Airport and Mainz Central Station .

1978 determined scouring at the bridge have been eliminated by the use of a special vessel.

As part of the project to renovate the Frankfurt am Main Stadion station , the construction of a third Niederräder bridge is planned by 2026. The project is currently in the planning approval process by the Darmstadt Regional Council .

photos

• 

  On the right the old bridge and on the left the new Niederräder bridge

• 

  An ICE runs towards the main station over the Alte Niederräder bridge

• 

  View from Griesheimer Ufer to the Alte Niederräder bridge

literature

• Wolfram Gorr: Frankfurt bridges. Locks, ferries, tunnels and bridges of the Main. Frankfurt am Main 1982: Frankfurter Societät. ISBN 3-7973-0393-9
• Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar . Bensheim-Auerbach 1985.

Web links

Commons : Alte Niederräder Brücke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location and course of the structure as well as permissible speeds and signals on the OpenRailwayMap
• Old Niederräder Bridge. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 39 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Paetz, p. 9.
4. ↑ Construction project at the Frankfurt (Main) Stadium node. DB Netz AG, accessed on January 24, 2017 .