Elz Valley Bridge

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  E

Elz Valley Bridge
Bridge soffit
Convicted	Federal motorway 48
Crossing of	Elzbach
place	Kaifenheim
overall length	379.3 m
width	30 m
Longest span	37.5 m
height	97 m
start of building	1964
completion	1967
planner	Ulrich Finsterwalder , Herbert Schambeck
location
Elztalbrücke, aerial photo (2015)

The Elztalbrücke is a motorway bridge on the A 48 over the Elzbach near Kaifenheim (Kaifenheim and Kehrig districts ) in the Mayen-Koblenz district . The girder bridge was built from 1964 to 1967 based on designs by Ulrich Finsterwalder and Herbert Schambeck . The bridge has a length of around 380 m and a maximum height of 97 meters above ground.

The prestressed concrete structure has eleven fields with spans of 20.9 + 9 × 37.5 + 20.9 m. The bridge superstructure is monolithically connected at both ends with the 20.7 m long abutment box and with all supports, but is divided by an expansion joint over the middle of the valley. The construction was called a multi-stemmed frame with immovable nodes . The bridge superstructure is supported by individual piers arranged in the middle of the bridge's longitudinal axis. The octagonal pillars have reinforced concrete hollow cross- sections with external dimensions 4.8 m × 5.8 m and are monolithically connected to the mushroom-shaped superstructure. The 30 m wide in-situ concrete slab has a variable thickness, a maximum of 2.45 m in the middle on the pillar and at least 45 cm on the edge. The superstructure was erected with a telescopic arm .

literature

• Gerhard Mehlhorn: girder bridges . In: Gerhard Mehlhorn (Ed.): Handbook bridges. P. 250, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-29659-1
• Ulrich Finsterwalder, Herbert Schambeck: The Elztal Bridge . In: Der Bauingenieur , 41st year, 1966, pp. 251–258.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Mehlhorn, Manfred Curbach (Ed.): Handbook bridges . 3rd edition, Springer-Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-03339-2 , p. 107, p. 412