Swing bridge in the Rheinauhafen

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Malakov Tower, Swing Bridge and Chocolate Museum

The Cologne swing bridge over the Rheinauhafen on the left bank of the Rhine between the Malakoffturm and the Imhoff Chocolate Museum is Cologne's oldest bridge over Rheinwasser. It was opened on August 5, 1896, when the branch of the Rhine was being expanded into a port. The industrial monument was completely overhauled in 1986/87 and is now part of the Imhoff Chocolate Museum Foundation, to which it also grants access. The repair of the hydraulics, which was carried out in 1984, resulted in costs of almost DM 1 million.

Bridge data

The bridge is a steel lattice girder bridge with spans of 28.334 m for the long arm and 18.30 m for the short arm. The width is 10 m, of which 5 m for the roadway. To compensate for the unequal weights, the short arm was covered with stone paving, the long arm with wooden paving. The rotating device is operated by electro-hydraulic control with a pressure of 5 MPa in the Malakoff tower (from 1850). The pressure originally came from a power plant that was built for the entire port from 1892 to 1898. Before rotating, the bridge is raised 11.2 cm. The passage height is 8.20 m above the Cologne level zero point .

  • Rheinauhafen around 1898

  • Port entrance with open swing bridge

  • The bridge turns

  • Bridge and Malakoff Tower

Others

The bridge is painted in the traditional Cologne bridge green. To enter the Rheinauhafen, which is now mainly used as a sports port and marina , the swing bridge (after registering with the harbor master) is opened between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. (usually on the hour).

Deutz swing bridge

In Deutz Hafen in Cologne's Deutz district, there is another slightly larger swing bridge that opened in 1908 .

literature

  • Jörg Pfennig: About Bridges , con Media Verlag, Cologne 1996 (p. 174/76), ISBN 3-929972-06-9
  • Horst Schubert: Living Cologne. How the bridges stretched from Cologne to Cologne again. Observations, documents and voices from contemporary witnesses on Cologne's menopause since 1945. City of Cologne (Ed.) 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Schubert: How the bridges stretched again from Cologne to Cologne , pp. 40/41
  2. ↑ http://www.rheinau-sporthafen.de/Drehbruecke.html
  3. ↑ http://www.rheinau-sporthafen.de/Drehbruecke.html

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 56.2 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 48.8"  E