Elbe bridge Roßlau (railway)
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 52 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 11 ″ E
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| Convicted | Trebnitz – Leipzig railway line | |
| Subjugated | Elbe , km 257.84 | |
| place | Dessau-Rosslau | |
| construction | Steel truss bridge | |
| overall length | 220 m | |
| Longest span | 90 m | |
| Construction height | 13.4 m | |
| start of building | 1967 | |
| completion | 1970 | |
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The Elbe bridge Roßlau is a 220 m long railway bridge and spans the Elbe between Dessau and Roßlau at river kilometer 257.84. The structure is located on the Trebnitz – Leipzig railway line , immediately south of the Roßlau (Elbe) station .
Bridge from 1836
The fourth road bridge over the Elbe near Dessau was inaugurated on December 9, 1836 . It was a 216 m long wooden structure with stone pillars and five openings. In order to conduct rail traffic from Berlin to Leipzig via Dessau, Duke Leopold Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau made this structure available as a railway overpass, which made an expensive new bridge in Wittenberg unnecessary. On April 26, 1839, the State Treaty between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Duchy for the construction of the line from Wittenberg via Dessau to Köthen was signed . On September 10, 1841, the railway line over the Elbe bridge was put into operation by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company . When the train was traveling, the bridge was closed at both ends by barriers to road traffic.
Bridge from 1886
After the Prussian state had taken over management of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company at the beginning of 1882, planning and construction of a separate double-track railway bridge began. In November 1886 the structure, which was located downstream, right next to the road bridge, was put into operation. The bridge piers had been lengthened and girder bridges with trusses made of iron and an underlying carriageway were installed as superstructures. The longitudinal girders were designed as Schwedler girders , the construction height of which followed approximately the course of the moment load. The span between four openings was 42.5 m, the middle field spanned 43.4 m. As early as 1902, the superstructures had to be reinforced due to increased axle loads.
In April 1945 the two outer peripheral fields were blown up. By September 1945, temporary superstructures had been installed on additional yokes in the destroyed openings. In 1948 these were replaced by two temporary steel structures from the “Roth-Waagner” system and the yokes could be removed.
Bridge from 1970
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In 1967 work began on a new, double-track railway overpass in Roßlau. The structure was built below the old bridge at a distance of around 20 m and was completed in 1970. The three-span, 220 m long bridge, as a structural system, has the continuous beam in the longitudinal direction and is made of steel as a post-less strut framework. The middle bridge span over the Elbe has a span of 90 m. The smallest passage height for the ships is 7.41 m at the highest navigable water level. The German Post Office of the GDR dedicated a special postage stamp to the bridge on September 21, 1976.
In 2010 the railway bridge was extensively renovated. Among other things, the paintwork as well as the tracks and overhead line systems on the bridge were completely renewed.
literature
- Erich Fiedler: Road bridges over the Elbe . Saxoprint Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-9808879-6-0 .
- Hans Pottgießer: Railway bridges from two centuries . Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 1985. ISBN 3-7643-1677-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
| upstream | Bridges over the Elbe | downstream |
| Elbe bridge Roßlau (street) | Elbe bridge Roßlau (railway) |
Elbe bridge at Barby |