Concrete bridge (Weingarten)

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Concrete bridge
Concrete bridge between Weingarten and Freisbach

Concrete bridge between Weingarten and Freisbach

Data
place Weingarten , Rhineland-Palatinate
builder Palatine Ludwig Railway Company
Construction year 1905
Coordinates 49 ° 15 '59.4 "  N , 8 ° 16' 57.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '59.4 "  N , 8 ° 16' 57.7"  E
particularities
is under monument protection

The concrete bridge between Freisbach and Weingarten is a surviving bridge structure of the local railway Speyer – Neustadt, which was shut down in 1956 . It is a listed building .

location

The bridge is located on the district of Weingarten about one kilometer northeast of their settlement area. It served to cross the Bruchbach , an orographically right tributary of the Modenbach . The district of Freisbach is located immediately north of the river . There is an emigrant farm. State road 507 runs parallel to the west of the bridge . In the catchment area there is also a hallway called Am Bähnel .

history

As early as the 1870s, the first plans for a railway line across the Palatinate Gäu were in progress. A route through the communities of Freisbach and Weingarten was not fixed from the start. It was not until 1899 that Neustadt and Speyer were decided as starting and ending points, as well as a route over Freisbach and Weingarten. The line itself should have a gauge in meter gauge . The Kaltenbach or Bruchbach, which forms the boundary between the two communities, had to be crossed. This took the form of a concrete bridge that was completed in 1905. The construction was done on account of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company . On August 26, 1905, the bridge was opened to traffic with the opening of the Speyer – Geinsheim section. The line was closed at the end of 1956 and dismantled the following year. However, the bridge was preserved and is now a listed building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district of Germersheim. Mainz 2020, p. 36 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
  2. ↑ That was what was left of the “peppermint string”! Meter-gauge local railway Neustadt - Speyer. (No longer available online.) May 27, 2012, archived from the original on February 19, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Kroszewski: The story of the “peppermint train”. The Gäubahn Neustadt - Gommersheim - Speyer. Contemporary witnesses remember . 2009, p. 25 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Kroszewski: The story of the “peppermint train”. The Gäubahn Neustadt - Gommersheim - Speyer. Contemporary witnesses remember . 2009, p. 287 .