Elbe bridge Schönebeck
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 29 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 20 ″ E
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| Subjugated | Elbe , km 311.75 | |
| place | Schönebeck (Elbe) | |
| construction | Steel truss bridge | |
| overall length | 584.8 m | |
| width | 13.12 m | |
| Longest span | 72.6 m | |
| Construction height | 7.4 m | |
| building-costs | 1.24 million marks | |
| start of building | 1910 | |
| completion | 1912 | |
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The Elbe bridge Schönebeck (also Ernst-Thälmann-Brücke ) is a 585 m long road bridge that spans the Elbe in Schönebeck at river kilometer 311.8. The structure connects the city center with the Grünewalde district with two lanes and combined pedestrian and cycle paths on both sides .
history
As early as 1878 there were first plans for a fixed Elbe crossing. Twenty years later, this was followed by a memorandum to the Prussian state government, and in 1903 the design principles and the competition. The steel bridge could finally be built from 1910 and inaugurated on November 30, 1912. The prerequisite for the approval to build the bridge was the incorporation of the two villages on the right bank of the Elbe, Grünewalde and Elbenau , which was completed on April 1, 1913.
construction
The construction of the bridge consisted of four sections, the 25.7 m long western flood bridge, the river bridge and the eastern foreland bridge with ten openings. An arched lattice girder with a drawstring and a span of 133.5 m was installed above the shipping opening .
As a structural element of the superstructure of the eastern, 425.6 m long approach bridges, riveted strut truss girders with posts and an overhead deck were chosen. The bridge part is one of the oldest steel bridges of this size in Germany. In the longitudinal direction there are Gerber girders with attached coupling girders as a building system. Four fields have a span of 56.0 m with a beam height of 3.4 m, six fields span 33.6 m with 2.34 m high beams. The pillars are founded on wooden piles. The bridge, especially the river bridge, was designed in Art Nouveau style by Bruno Möhring . At the end of April 1945, the arch bridge over the Elbe was blown up by German units.
In 1952, a 7.4 m high, two-span strut truss bridge with posts and an underlying carriageway was installed as a superstructure in the power field. This required the construction of a new river pillar, which resulted in spans of 72.6 m and 60.9 m. In addition, the superstructure of the western flood bridge was replaced by a two-span reinforced concrete girder bridge with spans of 13.0 m and 12.7 m. The cross-section is a T-beam with four webs. The new Elbe bridge was opened to traffic on May 20, 1952 as the " Ernst Thälmann Bridge". It now connected the districts of Grünewalde and Elbenau with Schönebeck again.
The smallest passage height at the highest navigable water level is 5.28 m, which makes the structure one of the lowest bridges over the Elbe.
Due to extensive damage as a result of inadequate structural maintenance, extensive repairs were carried out on the bridge between 1995 and 1997 with the aim of a further service life of 50 years for 18.0 million DM. A further repair was carried out in connection with the handover of the bridge from the federal government to the city of Schönebeck in 2016. To protect the bridge from excessive loads and to increase the service life of the bridge, a tonnage limit of 3.5 tons applies from 2017 ( excluding buses).
New building
Between 2010 and 2013, the Schönebecker Elbauenbrücke was built as part of the construction of a bypass in the east of the city . The structure is 1128 m long and has a 185 m cable-stayed bridge as a river bridge . As a result of the new route of the federal highway 246a over the bypass and the new Elbe bridge, the Elbe bridge Schönebeck was transferred to the ownership of the city of Schönebeck.
New river pillar from 1952
Elbe bridge at high tide
Structure of the approach bridge
Staircase (Art Nouveau)
literature
- Federal Ministry of Transport: Bridges and tunnels on federal highways 1998. Verkehrsblatt-Verlag Dortmund, ISBN 3-89273-000-3 , pp. 89-104
- Erich Fiedler: Road bridges over the Elbe. Saxoprint Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-9808879-6-0 .
- City of Schönebeck (Ed.): 775 years of Schönebeck on the Elbe. Schönebeck: Schlüter printing works, 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Schönebeck (ed.): 775 years of Schönebeck on the Elbe . Schönebeck: Schlüter printing works, 1997
- ↑ Heike Liensdorf: Elbbrücke: Unwanted surprises . In: Schönebecker Volksstimme . August 12, 2016 ( volksstimme.de [accessed July 22, 2020]).
| upstream | Bridges over the Elbe | downstream |
| Schönebecker Elbauenbrücke | Elbe bridge Schönebeck |
Sternbrücke Magdeburg |