Erdberger Bridge

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The Erdberger Brücke crosses the Danube Canal in Vienna as part of the Südosttangente city ​​motorway at the Wien Prater junction and connects Landstrasse (3rd district) with Leopoldstadt (2nd district).

With a total span of 147 meters and a width of 42 meters, it crosses the Danube Canal in ten lanes. The concrete structure of the bridge is built in the form of a shell ("the shell bridge - a concrete sculpture"), the roadway slab rests on cylindrical shells of variable thickness. In 2015/2016 the bridge was torn down and replaced by a new building.

location

Erdberger Bridge

The Erdberger Bridge is part of the Vienna Prater traffic junction of the Südosttangente Wien (A23) and the Ostautobahn (A4). The bridge is close to the Remise Transport Museum , Austro Control GmbH (formerly the Federal Office for Civil Aviation ), the air traffic control center , the Austrian State Archives , the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities , the only active nuclear reactor in the Republic of Austria , and the Erdberg underground railway station .

Car traffic from the south of Vienna to districts 21 and 22 on the other side of the Danube runs over the bridge. The ascents and descents of the bridge provide a connection to the city center upstream along the Danube Canal, and downstream via the A4 to the connection to Vienna Airport and towards Bratislava and Budapest .

1969 until today

The bridge was built between 1969 and 1971 according to plans by the engineering office Alfred Pauser by Neue Baugesellschaft Auterried & Co. Up until then, there was no bridge at the site; rather, the tangent was laid across the elongated Danube Island formed by the 20th and 2nd districts and thus across the green Prater ; it continues in a 1967-1970 also newly built Danube bridge, the Prater Bridge , in the 22nd district.

The Südosttangente later turned out to be the busiest road in Austria and still does today.

On July 20, 2001, the Erdberger Bridge hit the headlines in a curious way: An illegally released and 76 centimeter long caiman was caught near the Erdberger Bridge by the Viennese professional fire brigade and handed over to the Schönbrunn Zoo .

In the course of the renovation of the Vienna Südosttangente, the Erdberger Bridge will be demolished in 2015/2016 and replaced by a new building. A possible monument protection for the bridge was examined, as the special shell construction is considered to be a pioneering work of Austrian engineering and is of outstanding importance due to its elegant shape. From the point of view of the responsible ASFINAG , the renovation of the current bridge does not make sense for technical and financial reasons. In January 2013 the negative decision of the Federal Monuments Office regarding monument protection became known, the condition of the bridge is too bad.

ASFINAG therefore decided, after the construction of two replacement bridges in 2014 and 2015, to demolish the Erdberger Bridge by 2016 and to build a new bridge there. The replacement bridges are to remain part of the Praters junction after the construction of the new Erdberger Bridge in order to disentangle the traffic management. The southern bridge was demolished by May 2015, whereby the use of a special ship made it possible to dispense with the construction of scaffolding, thus shortening the construction time by a few months.

The two new bridges were opened to traffic at the end of August 2016

Demolished southern Erdberger Bridge (May 2015)

Web links

literature

  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube. Edition Wien, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 .
  • Alfred Pauser: Bridges in Vienna - A guide through the history of construction. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-25255-X .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Report on the ORF website from April 16, 2015
  2. ↑ http://www.krone.at/Oesterreich/Bruecke_der_Suedost-Tangente_bald_unter_Denkmalschutz-Asfinag_ablehnend-Story-330456
  3. ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2544859
  4. ↑ Tangentenbrücke: No monument protection. In: wien.orf.at. January 11, 2013, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Asfinag.at - A 23 Südosttangente Wien Conversion of the Prater junction ( memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asfinag.at
  6. ↑ Erdberger Bridge: demolition finished

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 34 "  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 59"  E