Inzigkofen Danube Bridge
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 45 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E
| Inzigkofen Danube Bridge | ||
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Danube | |
| place | Inzigkofen | |
| construction | three articulated concrete - arch bridge | |
| width | 3.8 m | |
| Number of openings | a | |
| Longest span | 44 m | |
| start of building | 1895 | |
| completion | 1895 | |
| construction time | 4 months | |
| planner | Karl von Leibbrand | |
| closure | Blown up in 1945 | |
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The Danube bridge Inzigkofen connected the town of Inzigkofen in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg with its branch station on the other, northern side of the Danube , where the Zollernalbbahn and the Danube Valley Railway separate.
history
The Danube bridge Inzigkofen replaced a wooden bridge damaged by the floods of 1891 and was built in 1895 in just four months according to the plans and under the direction of Karl von Leibbrand . She was after also of Leibbrand designed and created in 1893 Munderkinger Donaubrücke the second three articulated concrete - arch bridge and also the first in which the joints are left open and not as yet in the Munderkinger bridge some time after lowering the falsework concreted were.
The bridge had a single arch made of unreinforced stamped concrete with a span of 44 m and an arrow height of 4.46 m. Because of the limited resources available and the low traffic loads, it only had a single 2.50 m wide carriageway and two 0.65 m wide sidewalks. It was 3.80 m wide between the railings. The width of the concrete arch from 3.60 m at the apex increased to 4.60 m up to the fighters . The arch was 0.70 m thick at the apex, 1.10 m thick at the arc quarters and 0.78 m thick at the transom joints. The cast iron joints on the fighters were clearly visible, the joint in the top of the head was covered by a Zore iron under the roadway . A total of 36 pillars were arranged in the arches , with which the roadway was elevated.
Just like the Munderkinger and numerous other Danube bridges, the Inzigkofener Bridge was blown up by the Wehrmacht shortly before the end of World War II , in April 1945, before American troops marched in.
In 1950 it was replaced by a 7.4 m wide reinforced concrete arch bridge. Since the station was closed, it is of little importance for local traffic.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bridge over the Danube near Inzigkofen. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , XXX. Vintage. N ° 1 of January 1, 1896, p. 7 ( digital version (PDF; 33.5 MB) on opus4.kobv.de)
- ↑ a b table in: Concrete bridges. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 2: Building Design - Brazil . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1912, p. 271 ff.
- ↑ Karl von Leibbrand: Advances in the construction of wide, flat massive bridges. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Edition XXVI. 1906, No. 72 of September 5, 1906, p. 455 (458) ( digitized ); No. 73 of September 8, 1906, p. 462 ( digitized version ) and No. 76 of September 19, 1906, p. 483 ( digitized version, each from the Digital State Library Berlin )
- ^ Database detail on Karl Gotsch's website