Ice Valley Viaduct
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 58 ′ 55 ″ E
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| use | Railway line | |
| Convicted | Ice Valley Railway | |
| Crossing of | Eisbach and L 395 | |
| place | Ramsen (Palatinate) | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 271 m | |
| Pillar spacing | 62.5 m | |
| height | 35 m | |
| building-costs | 960,000 Reichsmarks | |
| start of building | September 1931 | |
| completion | October 28, 1932 | |
| opening | November 5, 1932 | |
| construction time | 13 months | |
| Status | groomed | |
| closure | December 31, 1988 | |
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The Eistal Viaduct , sometimes also called Eiswoogbrücke , is a railway bridge on the Eiswoog , a small reservoir near Ramsen ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). From 1932 to 1988 the bridge ran the single-track Eistalbahn across the Eisbach . It also spans the state road 395, which runs to the left above the stream and connects Grünstadt with Enkenbach-Alsenborn .
The viaduct , technically a girder bridge , consists of a half-timbered construction supported by pillars , the upper edge of which is 36 meters above the course of the stream, and with a length of 271 meters is the longest railway bridge in the Palatinate .
geography
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The Eistalbahn in the north of the Palatinate Forest connected Grünstadt in the east and Enkenbach in the west along the Eisbach . Its western section Eiswoog – Enkenbach, to which the Eistal Viaduct belongs, has been closed since 1988; the eastern section Grünstadt – Eiswoog ends directly east of the bridge at Eiswoog stop .
Immediately under the bridge is a locomotive shed as the western terminus of the Stumpfwaldbahn , a museum, narrow-gauge railway that was set up for tourism purposes.
A few meters from the Eiswoog stop there is a lookout point that allows a view down to the Eisbach floodplain, the dam wall with the hotel and over the reservoir behind it.
architecture
The Eistal Viaduct has two abutments with reinforced concrete arches facing the slopes, which are connected by a half-timbered construction over 200 meters long. The superstructures are designed as two-field steel lattice girders with parallel lattice girders and an open roadway and rest on two reinforced concrete pillars up to 35 meters high.
history
The planning for the Eistalbahn began just three years after the construction of the first German railway line between Nuremberg and Fürth . The completion of the line, which began in the 1870s and was partially put into operation, was delayed by more than half a century because the Eistal Viaduct was only opened in 1932 to close the gap between the Enkenbach – Eiswoog and Ramsen – Grünstadt sections. The construction cost 960,000 Reichsmarks . While the Siegfried Line was being built, and subsequently also during the Second World War , material important to the war effort rolled over the Ice Valley Viaduct to the west.
During the Second World War, the viaduct was damaged by low-flying attacks and bombing in 1944 and 1945. After renovation, the bridge could be used again from 1949.
The last train crossed the viaduct on a special rail bus trip on December 31, 1988. Plans to re-route the railroad traffic of the Eistalbahn, which was reactivated between Grünstadt and Ramsen in 1994, failed due to high renovation costs. Since 2001 the trains have ended immediately to the east of the bridge, where the new Eiswoog stop was built.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c palzpix.de: Eistal Viaduct. Retrieved March 9, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Volker Blees: The history of the Eistalbahn Grünstadt – Enkenbach. Retrieved March 9, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d ndtponton: Longest railway bridge in the Palatinate: Eistal viaduct. Retrieved March 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Stumpfwaldbahn Ramsen: Welcome to the Stumpfwaldbahn. Retrieved March 9, 2012 .
- ^ Eisenbahnstiftung Joachim Schmidt (Ed.): All pictures on the subject of the Reichsbahn in war . ( online [accessed June 14, 2020]).