Copper rotary railway bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 32 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 29" E
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| use | today a bicycle and pedestrian bridge | |
| Convicted | Bike and footpath; formerly Ruhr Valley Railway | |
| Crossing of | Dysentery | |
| place | Kupferdreh , Heisingen , Essen | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | around 233.75 m | |
| Longest span | 5 × 46.75 m | |
| start of building | 1870 | |
| completion | 1872 | |
| opening | August 10, 1872 (railroad) December 6, 1984 (cycle and footpath) |
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| construction time | 2 years | |
| closure | October 1, 1978 for the railroad | |
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| Above sea level | 50 m | |
The Kupferdreh railway bridge is a former railway bridge of the Ruhr Valley Railway over the Ruhr and today connects the Essen districts of Kupferdreh and Heisingen with a cycle and footpath.
history
After construction began in 1870, the 233 meter long steel truss bridge was inaugurated on August 10, 1872 for the Ruhr Valley Railway as part of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway . This was preceded by the decision to build it in 1865. It was now possible to transport hard coal during the booming mining industry in the Ruhr area from Überruhr , Kupferdreh, Heisingen, Werden and Kettwig to the Rhine .
With the completion of the Baldeneysee in 1933, the water level was raised to such an extent that not only, as before, the second field between the pillars from the Heisinger side, but all five fields were completely undermined by water. The former round arches were replaced by today's continuous steel framework before the Baldeneysee was built in the mid to late 1920s.
In 1945 the bridge was blown up by the German Wehrmacht to stop the advancing American troops. After the Second World War , the Christine union rebuilt it on a single track.
The railway bridge became superfluous with the closure of the surrounding coal mines and was decommissioned on October 1, 1978. After being converted into a cycle path and footpath and raising it by 70 cm, the bridge was inaugurated on December 6, 1984 by the then Lord Mayor Peter Reuschenbach . Today it forms part of the RuhrtalRadweg .
See also
literature
- Christoph Schmitz: The Ruhr bridges. Ardey Verlag, Münster 2004; Pp. 423-424. ISBN 3-87023-311-7
Web links
- Monument path, citizenship of Kupferdreh: copper turn railway bridge ; Retrieved July 8, 2016
- Copper rotary railway bridge. In: Structurae