Kostheim Bridge

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 36 ″  E

B43 Kostheim Bridge
Kostheim Bridge
Main bridge of the federal highway 43 from Kostheim to Gustavsburg seen from the north
use Road bridge
Convicted Bundesstrasse 43
Subjugated Main
place Mainz-Kostheim , Ginsheim-Gustavsburg
Entertained by Hessen Mobil
construction Divided Warren truss bridge made of steel with an underlying deck
overall length 344 meters (164 meters foreland bridge + 180 meters long steel frame bridge)
Headroom 6.70
opening 1887; 1947
Status in use
location
Kostheim Bridge (Hesse)
Kostheim Bridge

The Kostheimer Brücke connects the Wiesbaden district of Mainz-Kostheim with Ginsheim-Gustavsburg (district of Gustavsburg) across the Main . The road bridge is part of the federal highway 43 , on the Kostheim side it also bears the name Hauptstraße and on the Gustavsburg side Darmstädter Landstraße .

The original bridge with truss - arch supports the MAN plant Gustavsburg on piers, the construction company Philipp Holzmann & Cie. in caisson foundation, was put into operation in 1887 and, after being destroyed in World War II, rebuilt in 1947 with a simpler Warren framework .

The Kostheimer Brücke is the last Main bridge before it flows into the Rhine at km 1.330. It is listed in the route of industrial culture Rhein-Main Mainspitze .

The Kostheimer Bridge is part of the " Drei-Brücken-Lauf ", the other two are the Rhine bridges Theodor-Heuss-Brücke and the Südbrücke .

Due to increasing traffic load, Hessen Mobil is planning to build the bridge again. In the course of this planning, the monument value of the bridge is checked. The State Office for Monument Preservation in Hesse is considering recognizing the bridge as a cultural monument .

  • Bridge 2013

  • Bridge seen from the northwest (2009)

Predecessor structures

Already in Roman times - see Mogontiacum and Römerbrücke (Mainz) - there was a Main Bridge nearby. Remains of the bridge piers can only be found today when the water is extremely low in the Main on the Gustavsburg side, approx. 200 m west of today's Kostheimer Bridge. They are aligned with the course of the Main at that time.

  • Plan of Mogontiacum taking into account the period 1st century BC BC to 5th century

  • The city map of Mainz (1736) also shows a bridge over the Main

Web links

Commons : Mainbrücke Kostheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2012, p. 23 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The use of wooden caissons for the compressed air foundation of the river pillars of the Main Bridge near Kostheim. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 8, 1888, No. 16 (from April 21, 1888), p. 176 f.
  3. ↑ Three Bridges Run 2014
  4. ↑ Kostheim: State of Hesse plans a new Main Bridge - around 30 million euros in construction costs ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by Wolfgang Wenzel on Allgemeine-zeitung.de November 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Mainbrücke a cultural monument ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Wolfgang Wenzel on wiesbadener-tagblatt.de on February 12, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de
  6. ↑ Private homepage with picture in the lower section on the page