Eglisau railway bridge

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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 39 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 37"  E ; CH1903:  680634  /  270207

Eglisau railway bridge
Eglisau railway bridge
use Railway bridge
Crossing of Rhine
place Eglisau
construction Truss bridge
overall length 457 meters
Longest span 90 meters
height 50 meters
start of building 1895
completion 1897
location
Eglisau railway bridge (Canton of Zurich)
Eglisau railway bridge

The Eglisau Railway Bridge (also Eglisau Rhine Bridge ) is a single-track railway bridge over the Rhine in the Swiss city ​​of Eglisau . It transfers the railway line from Bülach to Schaffhausen and was built between 1895 and 1897 by the then Swiss Northeast Railway for 980,000 Swiss francs . The bridge has a total length of 457 meters and a height of 50 meters above the river. It has been classified as a cultural asset of regional importance and is a listed building .

Two steam locomotives on the Rhine bridge at the end of the film
Guarding the bridge during the First World War

The structure consists of an iron truss bridge over the Rhine , a 90 meter long and 9 meter high riveted , double stud frame construction, which was supplied by Gutehoffnungshütte . After completion, the truss bridge was equipped with a gravel trough. Installation took five months and accounted for around a third of the total cost. Next to the middle section, on the right bank of the Rhine, there are twelve stone arches made of limestone , each of which has a clear width of 15 meters. On the left side of the Rhine, where the viaduct is curved, there are nine stone arches, also with an opening width of 15 meters.

After the bridge was put into operation, subsidence of the apexes and cracks were found on the two vaults next to the main opening, and movements of the bank piers in the direction of the truss bridge were measured. The cause was the horizontally acting thrust on the 60 meter high bank pillars caused by the vaults. In order to ensure adequate stability, a lever device was therefore installed on the sliding bearing of the truss bridge in 1921, which enables the arching mechanism to be received and forwarded. In 1982 the bridge was completely renovated.

literature

  • Thomas Neukom: Eglisau Railway Viaduct, 1897 . In: Roland Böhmer, Sebastian Brändli, Martin Leonhard, Peter Niederhäuser (eds.): From the grave mound to the eco-settlement. Zurich building stories (= communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich . Volume 74). Chronos Verlag , Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-0340-0839-6 , pp. 88–89.
  • W. Stadelmann: Rhine bridges of the 19th century made of iron from: Schweiz.Ing.u.Architekt, 1989, ISSN  0251-0960 .
  • Schweizer Bahnbrücken Ed .: SBB Specialist Office for Monument Preservation + GSK Society for Swiss Art History, Scheideger & Spiess 2013, ISBN 978-3-85881-393-0 , pp. 118–123.

Web links

Commons : Eglisau railway bridge  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss railway bridges, page 118
  2. ↑ brueckenweb.de: Rheinbrücke Eglisau
  3. ↑ B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). .
  4. ^ Railway bridges in Switzerland
  5. ↑ baufachinformation.de: Rhine bridges of the 19th century made of iron ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baufachinformation.de
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