Erpetal Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 58 ″ E
| Erpetal Bridge | ||
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| use | Railway viaduct | |
| Convicted | Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway line | |
| Subjugated | Erpe and Kreisstraße 103 | |
| place | Wolfhagen , Philippinenthal , Elmarshausen | |
| overall length | 90 m | |
| opening | 1896 | |
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The Erpetalbrücke is a 90 m long, single-track railway viaduct on the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar line ( route number 3903) near Wolfhagen in the north Hessian district of Kassel . The arched bridge with five arches opened in 1896 is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Geographical location
The bridge is part of the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway between the Wolfhagen core city in the southwest and the Wolfhagen district of Altenhasungen in the east in the Habichtswald Nature Park, about 300 m east-southeast of the Schützeberg ( 277.2 m above sea level ). It leads in the transition area of Altenhasunger Graben and Ehringer Senke between the Schützeberg, the south-eastern Helfenberg ( 366.2 m ; former location of Helfenberg Castle ) and the south-south- western Ofenberg ( 372.5 m ) over the Twiste tributary Erpe and the district road 103, which leads past the Schützeberg and the Oleimühle and Neuen Mühle , and then past the Schützeberger Hof about southeast to Philippinenthal . About 1.4 km north-west of the viaduct is the Elmarshausen moated castle , downstream on the Erpe .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , esp. Route no. 068 (Volume 2.2, p. 778 ff)
Individual evidence
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen, p. 1075