Kobingersteg

The Kobingersteg in 1898

The Kobingersteg in Vienna was a pedestrian walkway over the Wien River , which connected Kobingergasse in Meidling with Pfeiffergasse in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

history

1831-1851

The first Kobingersteg was created in 1831 by the community of Gaudenzdorf as a second connection route to what is now the 15th district of Vienna, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. This wooden footbridge, which was named after Adam Kobinger, the local judge of Gaudenzdorf, who died in 1841, was financed primarily from the income from ice extraction from the Vienna River. This footbridge was destroyed by a flood of the Vienna River on May 18, 1851.

1851-1887

The footbridge, which was restored in December 1851, was described in 1886 as a wooden footbridge about 1.5 meters wide and inclined to Vienna with a length of almost 35 meters on three bays.

The Kobingersteg was important for the half of Gaudenzdorf south of the Wien River, as it was the shortest connection to the horse tramway - later tram line 8 - that ran through Pfeiffergasse and Diefenbachgasse .

1887-1969

Due to the increasing number of users, the wooden footbridge was replaced by a steel construction in 1887. A pedestrian bridge with curved upper chords was built. At the supports, the trusses were about 1.8 meters high and in the middle of the bridge 4 meters or 3.2 meters above the level of the sidewalk.

During the Vienna river regulation, a wooden emergency walkway was built next to the steel bridge on July 11, 1898 in order to be able to repair the ten-year-old supporting structure and to be able to lift it because of the clearance height necessary for the light rail . After a stress test on December 3 of the same year and the construction of a staircase to the Kobingersteg, which was previously at the same level, it was reopened for pedestrian traffic on December 20, 1898. Since the Kobingersteg was also used as a pipe bridge for three gas lines from the Gaudenzdorf gasworks , these had to be temporarily closed and relocated.

Because of the establishment of the three-lane Linke Wienzeile in this section, the Kobingersteg had to be demolished in 1969.

Belt line of the Vienna Stadtbahn

During the construction of the ramp that was used to lower the Viennese light rail following the bridge over the line to the Meidling Hauptstrasse station , three viaduct arches were left out and the 37 meter long bridge over Kobingersteg was built in their place . The large opening should serve as a passage opening for a road bridge to be built later. This bridge, like the entire ramp, fell victim to the conversion to operation with the U6 .

literature

• Ludwig Varga: Kreuzungen in Meidling - Part 2 , sheets of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2006, issue 66

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 13 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 11.7"  E