Auheim Main Bridge
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 25 " N , 8 ° 56 ′ 10" E
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| use | Railway and road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Main | |
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Hanau - Klein-Auheim (Main km 59.560) |
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| construction | Lattice box steel bridge | |
| overall length | 240 m | |
| Headroom | 4.85 m | |
| construction time | 1882/1941 | |
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The Auheim Main Bridge is a railway and road bridge in Hanau that crosses the Main and connects the Hanau districts of Großauheim and Klein-Auheim at km 59.560 .
history
The 240 meter long bridge was put into operation as a five-part lattice box steel bridge for the single-track northern branch of the Odenwaldbahn , which connects Babenhausen with Hanau , in 1882 at railroad kilometers 86.27 by the Hessian Ludwigsbahn . During the construction, the four river piers made of red sandstone were erected so wide that the route could have been extended by a second track, but this never happened. Rather, this option was used later instead to run a street parallel across the Main. For this purpose, the railway bridge was moved to the western pillar halves of the bridge in 1925 and a road bridge was then built on the eastern half in 1941, which, however, could only have one lane. At the end of the Second World War , the railway bridge was destroyed by the retreating Wehrmacht and the road bridge was badly damaged. Both were then rebuilt. The single-lane route of the road, today Brückenstraße , had to be secured with a traffic light from 1952 due to the increasing traffic and was closed to car traffic in 1982. Since then, it has only been passable for pedestrians and cyclists . The road bridge was a headroom of 4.38 m for shipping, the lowest over the Rhine - Main - Danube - Waterway . In 2005, two bridge segments were therefore raised by half a meter to the passage height of the railway bridge.
literature
- Magistrate of the city of Hanau (ed.): Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. Hanau II: Steinheim, Grossauheim, Klein-Auheim and Wolfgang = local route guide 19:18 Objects of industrial history in Hanau / southern route . Hanau 2006
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse . ) Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , vol. 2.1, p. 440. (route 026)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 54 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
