Helbing Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 1 ″ E
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| Official name | Helbing Bridge | |
| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Federal motorway 40 | |
| Subjugated | from west to east: Helbingstrasse, Weiglestrasse, Hohenburgstrasse, Essen-Werden – Essen railway line , Auf der Donau |
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| place | Essen , Südviertel | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 540 m | |
| vehicles per day | 70,000 | |
| start of building | 1961 | |
| completion | 1970 | |
| opening | September 25, 1970 | |
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| Above sea level | 88 m | |
The Helbingbrücke is a motorway bridge in the southern district of the city of Essen . It forms the further course of the federal motorway 40 in an easterly direction out of the Ruhrschnellweg tunnel .
history
The name of the Helbingbrücke is based on the leading Helbingstraße (Kreisstraße 14), which was named after Heinrich Glorius Helbing (1873-1933), the former board member of the Emschergenossenschaft and the Lippeverband . The construction of the bridge began in 1961. The handover of the Helbingbrücke and the Ruhrschnellweg tunnel took place on September 25, 1970 by the then Federal President and former Mayor of Essen, Gustav Heinemann .
In the summer of 2012, from July 7th to September 30th, the entire bridge was closed for a complete renovation. The building was originally designed for up to 40,000 vehicles per day. However, since the traffic had grown to around 70,000 vehicles per day by then, stability and safety were no longer given in the long term. The dilapidated concrete layers with all 6,800 square meters of road asphalt were renewed. 620 cubic meters of cap concrete were required for the new holders for the guardrails and signs. The foundations and pillars remained unaffected. The eastern part of the bridge over the railway line with an area of around 60 by 30 meters was completely demolished and rebuilt. The total cost of this renovation was around 18 million euros.
Technical specifications
The approximately 540 meter long bridge consists of five almost parallel, but slightly curved, carriageway bridges that run in an east-west direction. This includes the two parts of the four lanes in both directions, north the single bridge of the motorway exit (junction 23, Essen-Zentrum) from the east towards the Ruhrschschnellweg tunnel, south the motorway exit from the tunnel in a south-westerly curve onto Helbingstrasse and from there south the from approaching the tunnel on the A40 to the east.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ NRW architecture database: Helbingbrücke ; accessed on July 21, 2017
- ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
- ↑ Herbert Bernhard and Florin Laubenthal: Essen - a city changes its face , Verlag Wolff & Schneider, Essen, 1974
- ↑ Technical information from Eurovia Germany , edition 37/2012