Greifenbach Viaduct
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 50 ″ N , 12 ° 56 ′ 28 ″ E
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| Convicted | Greifenbach | |
| overall length | 180.6 m | |
| height | 35.6 m | |
| start of building | 1904 | |
| opening | 1906 | |
| Status | 1977 demolished and scrapped | |
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The Greifenbach viaduct was a Trestle - railroad bridge as part of the Saxon narrow gauge railway Schönfeld-Wiesa-Geyer-Thum . It was one of the largest narrow-gauge railway bridges in Germany and spanned the Greifenbachtal about 1.5 kilometers northeast of Geyer in the Ore Mountains .
history
The 180.60 m long steel construction, carried out by the company Kelle & Hildebrandt in Großluga , today's Dresden district, consisted of three fish-belly girders and sheet metal girder superstructures on both sides, which were supported on scaffold pillars or on pendulum walls . It was built in 1904/1905 on the Geyer – Thum line and was at the same time probably the most striking structure in the Thumer network. The bridge had an approximately two meter high windbreak fence on both sides along its entire length. The construction costs amounted to 130,109 marks.
Construction of the viaduct in 1904/05
Information board on the eastern abutment
Dimensional sketch
In 1924/25 the construction was reinforced in order to be able to drive higher axle loads .
After the line ceased operations on August 15, 1967, the construction was initially not used for ten years. The planned dismantling turned out to be relatively difficult, in the end it was decided to demolish it after considering, among other things, blasting.
In October 1977 it was finally cut up with cutting torches, moved with the help of a caterpillar tractor and further dismantled on the valley floor. The total mass of the steel parts was 275.84 tons .
The current value of the bridge in 1967 was around 1.18 million marks.
literature
- Narrow gauge railway archive. Transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1980, VLN 162-925 / 166/80 P 216/80
- Dieter Bäzold: The Thumer Narrow Gauge Network . The railway in the Greifenstein area between Zschopau and Zwönitz. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1993, ISBN 3-922138-51-9 .
- Stephan Häupel, Eberhard Schramm: Narrow gauge railways around Thum (= branch line documentation. 71). Kenning, Nordhorn 2002, ISBN 3-933613-39-6 .
