Main valley viaduct
The Haintal Viaduct is a railway bridge of the Odenwaldbahn in the district of Kailbach , part of the town of Oberzent , in the Odenwaldkreis in the southern Odenwald .
location
The Main Valley Viaduct is located between the Hesseneck Kailbach stop and the former Friedrichsdorf stop (b Eberbach) , a few meters from the state border between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg on the Hessian side, but opposite Friedrichsdorf , a district of Eberbach .
Building description
The 173 meter long and 32.5 meter high Haintal viaduct spans the Itter side valley of the same name and its construction is a scaled-down copy of the Himbächel viaduct on the same route. It consists of a total of nine arches with a clearance of 15 meters , which are combined into three groups of three arches each. The pillars, which are usually 3 meters thick on the fighter, are reinforced to 5 meters between the three arch groups. A total of around 8500 m³ of quarry stone were used here.
construction
The viaduct was built by the company Bell from Nuremberg within a year as part of the Odenwald Railway in 1881 . The construction costs amounted to 170,000 marks . Of this, 15,000 marks went to the scaffolding, for which 422 m³ of wood was used. The structure was opened to traffic together with the opening of the Kailbach– Eberbach section on May 27, 1882.
Worth knowing
The railway bridge is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Similar to the Himbächel Viaduct, the building is a popular photo opportunity.
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 456 .
- Odenwald Interest Group, Heinrich Klein (Ed.): 100 Years of the Odenwald Railway 1882–1982 . Groß-Umstadt 1982.
- Utz von Wagner: The Odenwaldbahn. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-88255-354-5
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Hainthalviadukt In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '50.2 " N , 9 ° 3' 51.8" E