Friedrich Ebert Bridge (Duisburg)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '22 "  N , 6 ° 43' 25"  E

Friedrich Ebert Bridge
Friedrich Ebert Bridge
In the background of the bridge
the ThyssenKrupp power plant "Hermann Wenzel"
use Road traffic
Convicted State road 140
Crossing of Rhine and a port arm
place Duisburg
construction Rein belt bridge
overall length 635 m
width 24 m
Longest span 285.5 m
height 9 m
location
Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (Duisburg) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Friedrich Ebert Bridge (Duisburg)

The Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke is a road bridge over the Rhine between the Duisburg districts of Ruhrort and Homberg . Here the state road 140 crosses the Rhine. It was built until 1954 to replace the Admiral Scheer Bridge , which was blown up in World War II .

history

The first efforts to build a bridge were made by the Ruhrort and Homberg mayors in 1872. The Prussian state refused the building permit for a long time for military reasons, as it was feared that this would make it easier for the then hostile French to cross the Rhine. For this reason, a decision was first made to build a railway ferry, the Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory .

After the founding of the empire and changed political conditions, a competition was held in 1903, from which the joint design by the construction company Grün & Bilfinger oHG (Mannheim) and the architect Hermann Billing (Karlsruhe) for a cantilever bridge in iron framework, which emerged victorious from the massive bridge towers . The MAN plant in Gustavsburg was awarded the contract to build the bridge . Construction of the bridge began in 1904, it was put into operation on April 20, 1907, but a ceremonial inauguration did not take place until October 19, 1907; it was later named "Admiral Scheer Bridge". From May 1, 1907 to January 1, 1913, the district of Ruhrort tram operated a route from Homberg over the newly built Rhine bridge to Ruhrort and on to Hamborn . The Ruhrort – Homberg section was later given to the Moers-Homberg tram .

On both sides of the Rhine connecting bridges were built over the railway port basins at the same time to connect the stations for pedestrians and wagon traffic. On the Ruhrort side, the harbor bridge was built as a steel arch bridge , the roadway of which cuts the arches halfway up.

Bridge towers of the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke

The main purpose of the two massive bridge towers, reminiscent of city gate towers, was their importance as a design counterweight to the iron bridge. The bridge toll was levied on the bridge towers . Colonnades connected the towers to the bridge. A curved, double staircase led to the lower Fürst-Bismarck-Straße. The staircase enclosed a fountain with the legendary "lion" of the Ruhrorter.

The Richard-Hindorf-Platz traffic junction on the Ruhrort side was named after Richard Hindorf , who was born in Ruhrort and was a pioneer in sisal plantation management in German East Africa .

On Sunday, March 4, 1945, German troops blew up the bridge as they retreated from the approaching 9th US Army as part of Operation Grenade on the right bank of the Rhine. It was built in a new form as a fake suspension bridge ( bridle strap bridge ) from 1951 and opened to traffic on December 18, 1954. When it opened, it was named after the politician Friedrich Ebert . In the years 1999-2003 the bridge was overhauled and reinforced. The two bridge towers of the original bridge were preserved.

In May 2010, after a six-month construction period, the Haniel staircase was inaugurated, which on the Ruhrorter side (on the eastern pylon) leads down around 70 steps from the Friedrich Ebert Bridge to the Mercator Island. There is a viewing platform at a height of 16 meters next to the stairs.

Technical specifications

Connecting bridge over the Ruhrort railway port

The road bridge has four lanes and a total length of 599 meters. The bridge consists of the river bridge with spans of 128.4 meters - 285.5 meters - 128.4 meters and a flood bridge on the right bank of the Rhine with 55.8 meters over the harbor basin. Since the suspension cables introduce their tensile forces into the superstructure and not into anchor blocks, the construction is referred to as a false suspension bridge or bridle strap bridge . The length of the bridge is given in one source as 599 meters, but in another as 635 meters. The long bridge girder is fully walled to stiffen the structure. The two steel pylons stand on concrete pillars.

See also

literature

  • Friedhelm Geddert: The Admiral Scheer Bridge ; in: Yearbook 1990/1991 of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine (Ed .: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft eV Duisburg, ISSN  0931-2137 ), page 42 ff.
  • Franz Gerd Gehnen: The Admiral Scheer Bridge ; in: Yearbook 2003/2004 of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine (Ed .: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft eV Duisburg, ISSN  1435-6252 ), page 10 ff.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (Duisburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Admiral Scheer Bridge ( Memento of the original from October 25, 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. at www.historisches-homberg.de , last accessed on August 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historisches-homberg.de
  2. ↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke in Duisburg at www.binnenschiffe-rheinruhr.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.binnenschiffe-rheinruhr.de  
  3. ↑ Krupp Stahlbau Hannover: Work while maintaining traffic  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.krupphannover.de   ; March 12, 2006
  4. ↑ http://www.eiffel.de/unterseiten/kompetenzen-projekte/brueckenbau/friedrich-ebert-bruecke-duisburg/
  5. ↑ Duisburg am Rhein, News: Haniel stairs to Mercator Island inaugurated ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at duisburg.de, accessed on November 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duisburg.de
  6. ↑ Gottfried Vogel: Assembly of the steel superstructure of the Rhine bridge between Duisburg-Ruhrort and Homberg . In: Der Stahlbau , Volume 24, 1955, Issue 6, pp. 122–128
  7. ↑ bridges in Duisburg www.bz-duisburg.de ; Retrieved October 30, 2013
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