Höxter railway bridge

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Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 52 ″  E

Höxter railway bridge
Höxter railway bridge
use Railway bridge
Convicted Altenbeken – Kreiensen
Crossing of Weser
place Höxter
construction Steel tied arch bridge
Number of openings 5
opening 1865 and 1954
location
Höxter railway bridge (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Höxter railway bridge

The Höxter railway bridge leads the Altenbeken – Kreiensen line over the Weser and connects the town of Höxter with its Lüchtringen district on the other bank of the river. The bridge is right next to the former Corvey Monastery .

history

Corvey and Höxter, in the foreground the old railway bridge

Until well into the 19th century, the Weser was still in a largely natural, unregulated state. It was considered an important transport route . But only after the " Weser Shipping Act " was passed on September 10, 1823 by Prussia , Braunschweig , Hanover , Lippe and Hesse , shipping on the Weser was to experience an upswing.

In 1831 the town of Höxter succeeded in building a new bridge over the Weser in Höxter with the help of the Prussian state , which had been destroyed in the Dutch War in 1673 and had not been rebuilt since then.

In the hope of a further economic upswing, citizens from Höxter , headed by Victor I. Duke of Ratibor , and the city of Holzminden have been committed to a railway line on their doorstep since 1852 .

The construction of the new Altenbeken – Kreiensen route went hand in hand with the bridging of the Weser near the town of Höxter and in the immediate vicinity of the former Corvey Abbey.

The wrought-iron superstructure , consisting of four bridge fields, was designed by the civil engineer Johann Wilhelm Schwedler and built by the Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen company, also known as Gutehoffnungshütte , in Sterkrade near Oberhausen . The Weser Bridge was completed in June 1865 after around two years of construction.

On October 1, 1864, the railway line from Altenbeken to Höxter was opened. This provided a connection to Kassel and on to Frankfurt and southern Germany, via Soest - Münster to Emden and via Cologne to Belgium and France . At that time, Höxter was integrated into the already well advanced railway network, to which the Ottbergen railway junction also contributed.

Before the end of the Second World War , the bridge together with the city ​​bridge of Höxter was blown up by German troops on April 7, 1945 on their retreat from the US soldiers.

A new building followed in 1952–1954 as a steel tied arch bridge , which is designed for double-track traffic, but is only used on a single track. The bridge was built by Flender A.-G. for iron, bridge and shipbuilding from Düsseldorf-Benrath .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ google.de/maps
  2. ^ Railways and shipping. (No longer available online.) In: hoexter.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 11, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hoexter.de
  3. ↑ Drehscheibe-online.de Again: Holzminden - Scherfede here: Engländer curve
  4. ↑ KBS 403: rheinmodellbahn.de Bielefeld-Brackwede - Hövelhof - Paderborn - Altenbeken - Ottbergen - Holzminden

Web links

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