Iron Bridge (Regensburg)
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 16 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 7 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Danube | |
| place | regensburg | |
| construction | steel construction | |
| overall length | 82 m | |
| width | 16 m | |
| start of building | 1988 | |
| completion | 1991 | |
| planner | Auer & Weber | |
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Today's Iron Bridge was completed in 1991 and connects the old town of Regensburg with the Lower Wöhrd . The bridge crosses the southern arm of the Danube at river kilometers 2,379.26.
construction
Because of the direct connection to the historic old town, a filigree steel construction was chosen for the new bridge in 1991. The 81 meter long arch bridge is divided into bay widths of 23.70 m, 34.60 m and 23.70 m and has a superstructure width of 16 meters. Of these, 9 meters are lane width.
history
The new building from 1991 replaced an old bridge at the same location that was built in 1863. This previous bridge was already called the Iron Bridge because it was created by spanning the wooden bridge structure of a wooden bridge completed in 1855, the load-bearing capacity of which had proven to be insufficient. This first iron bridge was in a precarious condition as early as 1940 at the beginning of the Second World War , was severely damaged by a bomb in October 1944 and blown up by German troops in April 1945. Only in May 1946 was a provisional wooden successor bridge - with the exception of the steel longitudinal girders spanning the piers - using the remains of a stone pillar from the destroyed bridge. In the immediate post-war period, the crossing over the Danube took place with ferries, to the annoyance of the population.
The oldest reference to a wooden previous bridge at this point can be found in a parchment manuscript in which a severe ice drift in 1431/32, during which the bridge was destroyed, is mentioned. Another manuscript mentions 1511 as the year of construction of the bridge, although again it was probably only the construction of a bridge after an ice rush. The wooden bridge was completely destroyed again in the heavy ice drift in 1784, which is why it was considered at the time to connect the Unteren Wöhrd - as well as the Upper Wöhrd - with an exit from the Stone Bridge to the old town.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Iron Bridge Regensburg. Mayr + Ludescher Beratende Ingenieure GmbH, accessed on August 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Iron Bridge. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on August 2, 2014.
- ↑ Directory of the bridge clearance heights / widths in the district of WSD South. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration , May 2013, archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; Retrieved August 3, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Iron Bridge. In: structurae. Ernst & Sohn, accessed on August 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Klaus Heilmeier: A desert island and more of a village than a suburb. Searching for traces on the Untere Wöhrd . In: City of Regensburg, Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Regensburg . tape 13 . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2550-5 , pp. 109-121 .
