Cookingbachtal Bridge

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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 52 ″  E

Cookingbachtal Bridge
Cookingbachtal Bridge
Driver's cab perspective of a train moving towards Cologne. The Kluse trough structure adjoins the Kochbachtal bridge (center) in the background.
Convicted High-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main
place Aegidienberg
overall length 150 m
height 14 m
opening 2002
location
Kochbachtalbrücke (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Cookingbachtal Bridge
Above sea level 220  m above sea level NHN

The Kochbachtalbrücke is a 150 m long and 14 m high railway bridge on the high-speed line between Cologne and Rhine / Main . The structure is located at kilometer 43 in the Aegidienberg district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Bad Honnef .

course

The six-span structure adjoins the south portal of the Kluse trough structure to the south . It spans the Kochbach , a left tributary of the Quirrenbach .

The bridge route describes a left curve in a southerly direction, the gradient rises continuously in this direction.

To the south, after a short above-ground section, the Rottbitzetunnel follows .

history

planning

According to the planning status from the end of 1995, the structure was planned to be 165 m long.

The planning for the structure was modified in the context of the " Konsenstrasse " decided in 1997 .

At the end of 1997 the planned length was 150 m. The structure was later realized with this length.

construction

The structure was built using a rolled-girder-in-concrete construction method.

The bridge was damaged on June 23, 2001 in the fire of a construction locomotive as a result of an accident.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhein / Main, project management (publisher): New Cologne – Rhein / Main line: construction section middle, Lot A: Königswinter – Dierdorf , brochure (20 pages), Frankfurt am Main, June 1999, p. 6th
  2. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, network division, project management for the Cologne – Rhein / Main line (publisher): route map for the new Cologne-Rhein / Main line . Map from November 1995, Frankfurt 1995.
  3. ↑ Without an author: The planning stage . In: Eisenbahn JOURNAL: Tempo 300 - The new Cologne – Frankfurt line . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , pp. 12-17.
  4. ↑ Peter Kaniut, Egbert Form: The role of the EBA in major DB AG projects using the example of the Cologne – Rhein / Main railway line . In: Railway technical review . 51, No. 9, 2002, pp. 554-564.
  5. ^ DBProjekt GmbH Cologne-Rhein / Main (ed.): Route map: New Cologne-Rhein / Main line , Frankfurt, November 1997.
  6. ↑ Without author: Timeline - Chronology of a route . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , p. 86 f.