Short valley viaduct
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ N , 9 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E
| Short valley viaduct | ||
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| Official name | Short valley viaduct | |
| use | railroad | |
| Crossing of | Short valley | |
| construction | Stone bridge | |
| overall length | approx. 60 m | |
| start of building | 1880 | |
| completion | 1882 | |
| opening | May 27, 1882 | |
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The Kurzes Tal-Viadukt is a railway bridge of the Odenwaldbahn in the district of Unter-Sensbach , part of the town of Oberzent , in the Odenwaldkreis in the southern Odenwald .
location
The Kurzes Tal-Viadukt is located between the Hesseneck Kailbach stop and the Eberbach train station , a few meters from the border between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg on the Hessian side, across from Friedrichsdorf , a district of Eberbach . The bridge spans the Itter side valley of the same name .
Architecture and history
The approx. 60 m long short valley viaduct consists of quarry stone masonry that was faced with sandstone blocks. The viaduct was built in the years 1880–1882 and its construction is a scaled-down copy of the Himbächel viaduct on the same route. On May 27, 1882, the structure was opened to traffic together with the opening of the Kailbach– Eberbach section .
Monument protection
The railway bridge is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The viaduct is a fine example of civil engineering in the 1880s.
literature
- Hans Teubner, Sonja Bonin et al .: Odenwaldkreis. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1998, ISBN 3-528-06242-8 , pp. 686f.
- Heinz Schomann: Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 456 .
- Utz von Wagner: The Odenwaldbahn. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-88255-354-5 .
- Odenwald Interest Group, Heinrich Klein (Ed.): 100 Years of the Odenwald Railway 1882–1982 . Groß-Umstadt 1982.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Viaducts over the 'Short Valley' and the 'Rindengrund' In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen