Szeged Railway Bridge
Coordinates: 46 ° 14 ′ 37 ″ N , 20 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ E
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| Crossing of | Tisza | |
| place | Szeged | |
| construction | Wrought iron truss arch bridge | |
| overall length | 439.26 m | |
| Number of openings | eight | |
| Longest span | 41.42 m | |
| Arrow height | 5.14 m | |
| Clear height | 8 m above HW | |
| start of building | 1857 | |
| completion | 1858 | |
| Status | Destroyed in 1944 | |
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The Szeged Railway Bridge over the Tisza in Szeged ( Hungarian Szegedi vasúti Tisza-híd ) was the largest railway bridge on the route from Pest via Szeged to Temesvár , which at that time belonged to Hungary.
The double-track wrought iron arch bridge built between 1857 and 1858 was 439.26 m long. It had eight openings with spans of 41.42 m and 106.5 m long foreland bridges over the steep banks. Each arch consisted of four parallel ribs stiffened by horizontal and diagonal braces. The track bed was raised by a framework with vertical supports and diagonal struts.
The pillars consisted of two cast iron pipes with a diameter of 3 m. They served as caissons when the foundations were established . As the sinking progressed, another pipe segment was put on and screwed from the inside. The pipes were then filled with concrete.
The bridge was built between 1857 and 1858 by the French company of Ernest Goüin (later Société de Construction des Batignolles and eventually Spie Batignolles ), transported by train from Paris to Szeged and erected there under the supervision of Ernest Cezanne . Ernest Goüin & Cie. had only completed the Asnières railway bridge near Paris in 1852 , the first wrought-iron bridge in France. The Szeged railway bridge was probably one of the most modern of its time. It was the first large railway bridge in Hungary, the first caisson foundation and the first riveted bridge in Hungary.
After the First World War , Temesvár became part of Romania through the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 and was then called Timișoara.
Due to the decline in traffic and the heavier trains, the bridge was only used as a single track; the second track was dismantled.
During the Second World War , supplies for the German troops and oil deliveries from Romania to Germany ran over the bridge. It was therefore bombed by the Allies in 1944. As they withdrew, the Germans blew up the remains of the bridge.
After the war, rebuilding the bridge did not seem a priority. The remains of the piers in the river hindered navigation and were also removed. The remains of the abutments are all that remained of the bridge.
After the accession of both countries to the EU , the revitalization of the route is being considered. A new construction of the bridge at its previous location is likely to be ruled out due to the narrow arc radii of the old route and the development in the meantime.
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- ↑ The information in this article is based on the work of László Kovács (Ed.): History of the Hungarian Railways 1846–2000. Hungarian State Railways Publishing House, Budapest 2000, p. 162
- ↑ The Chain Bridge in Budapest was opened in 1849, but it is a road bridge; At that time, chain bridges were not considered suitable for heavy rail traffic.