Glemstal Bridge

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '42 "  N , 9 ° 3' 35"  E

Glemstal Bridge
Glemstal Bridge
The bridge seen from the Glemstal
Convicted Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line
Subjugated Glemstal
place Markgröningen
overall length 348 m
height 54 m
start of building 1985
location
Glemstal Bridge (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Glemstal Bridge
Glemstal Bridge (2006)

The Glemstalbrücke is a 348 meter ( route kilometers 87.82 and 88.17) long bridge of the railway - high-speed route Mannheim – Stuttgart .

It crosses the Glemstal in the Markgröningen district northwest of Stuttgart and therefore bears this name. With a height of up to 54 m, it is the highest bridge on the high-speed line.

course

The route runs on the bridge in an arc of 8,000 m radius . The gradient rises to the east by 11.5 per thousand.

construction

The superstructure is designed with an enlarged support width of 58 m compared to the standard support width of 44 m ( single span girder ). The structure was erected between June 1985 and March 1987. The calculated costs were around 12.5 million D-Marks (around 6.4 million euros ; price as of the mid-1980s).

Critics criticize the cladding and decoration of the superstructure and substructure as unnecessary.

history

planning

The structure with a length of more than 400 m and a height of up to 60 m was planned for the pre-routing of the new line in 1973.

At a joint meeting on April 15, 1975, the municipal councils of Markgröningen, Möglingen and Schwieberdingen rejected the new line in principle.

According to the planning status of 1977, a 396 m long structure with nine pillars and a height of up to around 45 meters above the valley floor was planned. The former Federal Railroad emphasized the advantage of the bridge that the structure provided "a unique view of the historic silhouette of Markgröningen".

construction

Construction work began in the summer of 1985. The structure was located in planning approval area 13 of the new line. Due to the low temperatures, construction work had to be temporarily suspended in February 1986.

Not far from the bridge, the Eichholzer Klinge was built , the largest landfill of earth material that had accumulated during the construction of the new line. This location was selected from several alternatives for the excess masses accumulated in the section between the Markstein tunnel and Stuttgart. The Eichholzer Klinge dry valley proved to be well suited due to the low level of underground water flow, which, from the point of view of the Federal Railway, precluded any interference with the groundwater . Furthermore, the transport of overburden via the public road network was to be avoided and the agricultural use of the filled valley was to be improved through the installation of good soil. According to the planning status from around 1986, 750,000 m³ of material were to be heaped up to a dam on an area of ​​40 hectares and 2.25 million m³ to be deposited on the side. The construction costs were estimated at around 30 million DM . Since the necessary construction road could not be created in time, the masses from the plan approval area 15 (eastern area of ​​the Langes Feld tunnel) were ultimately not deposited on the Eichholzer Klinge. According to the state of planning from 1977, up to four million cubic meters of earth should be deposited on an area of ​​around 60 hectares. The Mayor of Markgröningen, Vogel, announced that he would like to raise a top-up fee. In the planning phase, local farmers were brought to a Rhenish lignite area by the Federal Railroad in order to demonstrate the possibilities of recultivation.

In order for earth transports from the eastern areas of the new line to travel to this landfill, the bridge had to be accessible by trucks after only 18 months of construction. Around 600 trucks drove over the bridge every day, which had been converted for around 500,000 D-Marks. 3.6 million cubic meters of excavated material were to be transported to the landfill via the construction road coming from the Kornwestheim marshalling yard.

business

On August 15, 2012, the ICE 575 on the way from Hamburg to Munich partially stopped on the bridge with a smoldering fire.

The joints of the bridge will be renovated in 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst J. Obermayer: New routes for the InterCityExpress. In: Herrmann Merker (Ed.): ICE - InterCityExpress at the start . Hermann Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1991, ISBN 3-922404-17-0 , pp. 57-69.
  2. ^ A b c Ernst Rudolph: Railway on new paths: Hanover – Würzburg, Mannheim – Stuttgart. Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-7771-0216-4 , p. 46.
  3. ^ A b BGS engineering firm: New Mannheim – Stuttgart line: Planning approval area 13: Glemstal Bridge . Data sheet (one page), Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1984.
  4. ↑ DB Netze (Ed.): Guide to designing railway bridges. 1st edition. 2008, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Central Transport Management: Explanatory report on the planning of the new Mannheim - Stuttgart line . October 1973, file number 400a / 411a.4002 / 4123 Nv (Mhm – Stg). P. 8 f; (available in the General State Archives Karlsruhe ).
  6. ↑ Werner Hagstotz: Concern and collective action in rural areas . Verlag Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-88129-475-9 , p. 263.
  7. ↑ a b The state government says tough “no” to this route. In: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung . 7th December 1977.
  8. ^ The new Mannheim-Stuttgart line of the Deutsche Bundesbahn: Section 13. Markgröningen. Four-sided Leporello, Karlsruhe, June 1977.
  9. ^ Project group M / S of Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New Mannheim – Stuttgart line: a concept for all of us . 28-page brochure from January 1986, Karlsruhe, 1986, p. 17.
  10. ^ A b Rüdiger Hartmuth, Hans Dieter Eisert: Construction schedule for the connection of the NBS M / S to the main line to the Stuttgart main station. In: The Federal Railroad . Issue 5/1987, p. 472 ff.
  11. ^ A b Rudolf Bienstock, Hans Dieter Eisen: Glemstalbrücke - the highest bridge on the new Mannheim – Stuttgart line under construction. In: The Federal Railroad. 5-6 / 1986, pp. 461-466.
  12. ^ Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 , p. 42 .
  13. ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn (ed.): Page deposit Eichholzer blade . Four-page brochure, ca.1986.
  14. ^ Dietrich Neidhardt: Public Relations for the new Mannheim – Stuttgart line. In: The Federal Railroad. 8/1978, pp. 599-603.
  15. ↑ Environmentally friendly built. In: The Federal Railroad. 64, No. 12, 1988, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 1129-1131.
  16. ↑ Verena Mayer, Daniel Völpel: Schmorbrand stops ICE on the open road. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . Vol. 68, No. 189, August 16, 2012, p. 17 (online)
  17. ↑ Start of construction. In: bauprojekte-deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, April 19, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 .

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