Fried Aviaduct
The Friedaviadukt was a railway bridge on the Leinefelde – Treysa railway line on the Kanonenbahn . She crossed north of the village Frieda , since 1971 part of the community Meinhard in Hesse Werra-Meissner , the Valley of Frieda , 1400 meters from the border Hessen / Thuringia removed.
The Friedaviadukt, located at route kilometers 38.82 to 38.91, was built until 1880 with the section Silberhausen Trennungsbahnhof - Eschwege , which was put into operation on May 15, 1880. The structure was 98.70 m long and 25.70 m high and, along with the Lengenfeld Viaduct, was one of the most outstanding structures along the route. The Heiligenstadt – Schwebda railway line , which was opened in 1914, was run over the double-track structure .
Like the Lengenfeld Viaduct, the superstructure of the Friedaviadukt was initially carried out with a fish-belly girder construction. When it showed structural defects in the early 1930s , it was replaced by box girders . At the beginning of the Second World War , the bridge was converted to single-track management and the girders of the second track were dismantled.
On April 3, 1945, retreating Wehrmacht units blew up the bridge. Due to the location of the building after the end of the war directly on the zonal and inner German border , it was not rebuilt and the railway line was permanently interrupted. The ruins of the bridge, which had broken into three parts, were not cleared until the 1970s . In the 1980s , the tracks to the west of the neighboring Friedatunnel were also dismantled, on which the damaged wagons were parked until the end.
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- The Kanonenbahn, part 18 , eichsfeld-archiv.de
Web links
- Historical photos of the bridge and its remains
- Fried Viaduct on Structurae
literature
- Günter Fromm: The History of the Kanonenbahn. Leinefelde - Eschwege 1880–1945. Leinefelde - Geismar 1880–1992. Publishing house Rockstuhl Bad Langensalza 2004
- Paul Lauerwald: The Leinefelde – Eschwege-West cannon railway. Quedlinburg 1998, 68 pages, 23 color and 30 black-and-white illustrations, several overview plans , ISBN 3-933178-01-0
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 38.2 ″ E