Kleinbahnbrücke (Minden)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '37 "  N , 8 ° 55' 35"  E

Kleinbahnbrücke Minden
Kleinbahnbrücke Minden
Minden small railway bridge with freight train
use Railway bridge
Convicted Mindener Kreisbahnen
Crossing of Weser
place Minden
construction Truss arch bridge
completion 1898
location
Kleinbahnbrücke (Minden) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Kleinbahnbrücke (Minden)

The Kleinbahnbrücke in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia is a railway bridge and one of a total of six bridges over the Weser in the area of ​​the city. It was built in 1898 and is a listed building .

history

The Minden station of the Cologne-Mindener Railway , which went into operation in 1847 , was laid out outside the city on the other bank of the Weser. When, as part of the Prussian Small Railroad Act of 1892, the development of rural areas with so-called small railways began, a stretch of the narrow-gauge Mindener Kreisbahnen was created from the state train station on the eastern bank of the Weser over the Weser to the northern part of the inner city of Minden and then, after overcoming a stepped terrain, to the northern surroundings to Petershagen. This also opened a new train station (called Minden Stadt train station) north of the city, which was closer to the city center. To cross the river, the small railway bridge was built as a riveted steel frame construction with a long flood bridge on the eastern bank.

This bridge initially carried the narrow-gauge tracks , which were widened to standard gauge after the Second World War .

To the west of the bridge was the former Minden Stadt train station; east of the bridge, the connection to the state railway was initially completed via the transfer station on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse and the subsequent shunting area. On Kaiserstrasse, the state train station was then built, which had its own branch line from the eastern bank of the Weser at the Kleinbahnbrücke over Neumarkt to the train station on Kaiserstrasse. This route was given up again in 1956.

During the fighting in World War II , the bridge was blown up by German pioneers and then lay in the river bed. The arches of the bridge protruding from the water were used by some people to cross the Weser, although climbing over it was difficult and dangerous. The bridge could later be lifted and repaired.

Scheduled passenger train traffic on the Mindener Kreisbahnen was discontinued in 1974. This also reduced traffic on the Kleinbahnbrücke in Minden. Today the bridge is used by a daily freight train as well as special trips by the Minden Museum Railway , which thus has a connection between its tracks and the higher-level tracks in the Deutsche Bahn network.

In 2004 the bridge was extensively renovated . The pillars made of Porta sandstone were sandblasted and plastered again, the arch bridge was repaired and completely re-treated with rust protection and painted. The steel trusses of the flood bridge on the eastern bank were replaced by solid wall girders .

Web links

Commons : Kleinbahnbrücke Minden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle in 2004. Minden Museum Railway, accessed on January 11, 2014 .