List of the Nidda bridges in Frankfurt am Main
42 bridges cross the Nidda in Frankfurt am Main today :
- 13 pedestrian bridges
- 10 road bridges
- weirs with pedestrian walkways 6
- motorway bridges 4
- motorway connection ramps (Westkreuz) 3
- railway bridges 3
- expressway bridges and 2
- light rail bridge . 1
Niddabrücke
The Nidda bridges are listed in the direction of the river. Lines with a yellow background ("For comparison") list important bridge structures that no longer cross the Nidda, but only an oxbow river or that had other important functions.
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Bad Vilbel-Heilsberg - Berkersheim | 0.0 | City highway |
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Harheimer Stadtweg |
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Harheim - Berkersheim | 0.8 | This road bridge is very narrow and because of their low carrying capacity of the reason is that on the bus - line 25 only minibuses can be used. |
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Bonames - Frankfurter Berg | 4.1 |
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(For comparison :) Homburg road |
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Bonames |
(1367) (1482) 1894 |
The original wooden bridge was one of the first across the Nidda and part of an important trade route to northern Germany. It was later renewed in stone and got its current late classicist appearance around 1894 - but only leads over an oxbow river of the Nidda. |
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Kalbach-Riedberg - Frankfurter Berg | 4.6 | 2006 | Is the on the bridge railing Green Armadillo by Robert Gernhardt . |
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Kalbach-Riedberg - Eschersheim | 5.5 | Motorway bridge with side bike and sidewalk |
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Northwestern districts (Volkspark Niddatal) |
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Eschersheim Weir | Heddernheim - Eschersheim | 6.5 | 1928 | Weir system for Nidda regulation (weir footbridge not open to the public) |
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Heddernheim - Eschersheim | 6.6 | Wooden bridge at the mouth of the Urselbach (right Nidda tributary) |
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Tramway - viaduct |
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Heddernheim - Eschersheim | 6.9 | 1908 | The bridge was built for the Frankfurt-Homburg tram and is still used today by the Frankfurt U-Bahn . |
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Heddernheim - Eschersheim | 6.9 | 1972 | The road bridge was built right next to the tram viaduct, connects Eschersheimer Landstrasse with Dillenburger Strasse and thus relieves the old bridge of Heddernheimer Landstrasse . |
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Heddernheim - Eschersheim | 7.0 |
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Heddernheim - Ginnheim | 7.7 |
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Heddernheim - Ginnheim | 8.5 | Footbridge to the Römerstadt barbecue area |
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Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse |
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Heddernheim - Ginnheim | 8.5 | 1974 | City highway with elevated railway -distance |
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Praunheimer weir |
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Praunheim | 9.3 | 1928 | Weir system for Nidda regulation with pedestrian walkway |
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Praunheim |
probably 1396 approx. 2000 |
The original bridge was one of the first across the Nidda and was part of a mill. It was later renewed in wood and then in stone around 2000. This led to the canalization over the Nidda, but since then only over an oxbow of the Nidda. |
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Praunheim | 9.6 | 1988 | First documented mention in 1556. Extended under Mayor Johann Daniel Launhard in 1827. 1988 new building. |
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Praunheim | 10.4 | 2014 | at the level of the Praunheimer sports fields; The former wooden footbridge was replaced by a massive bridge and named after the Praunheim painter Wilhelm Petri |
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Rödelheim (Brentano and Solmspark) |
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Hausener Weir | Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.2 | 1928 | Weir system for Nidda regulation with pedestrian walkway |
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Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.2 | City highway |
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Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.4 | Pedestrian bridge as a supplement to the parallel road bridge |
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Hausener Obergasse | Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.4 | This road bridge is very narrow and therefore a one-way street , but the streets before and after are not one-way streets. |
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Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.6 | Pedestrian bridge within the swimming pool (between the western and eastern sunbathing lawn), until 1961 at the Hausen bathing area |
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Rödelheim - Hausen | 11.7 | 1929 (1973) |
Tram bridge and two external road bridges |
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Rödelheim | 12.5 | two pedestrian bridges with the Nidda Island in between |
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Rödelheimer weir | Rödelheim | 12.7 | Weir system for Nidda regulation (weir footbridge not open to the public) |
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(For comparison :) Sternbrücke (Rödelheimer Landstrasse) |
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Rödelheim - Bockenheim | 1807 | The Sternbrücke was built over a former flood basin of the Nidda and is now a listed building. |
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Rödelheim | 13.3 | 2009 |
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Rödelheim | 13.4 |
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Rödelheim | 14.2 | 1995 |
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Rödelheim, Sossenheim - Griesheim | 14.2 | Three parallel parts of the bridge, the western one unused |
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Sossenheim - Griesheim | 14.4 | Height above the foot / bike path only 1.75 m. To the northeast of the bridge is an agricultural field in the middle of the cross |
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Sossenheim - Griesheim | 14.5 | very high to bridge the A 648 at the same time | |||
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Sossenheim - Griesheim | 14.5 |
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Western districts (Sossenheimer Unterfeld and Wörthspitze) |
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Sossenheimer weir | Sossenheim - Nied | 14.8 | Weir system for Nidda regulation with footbridge (up to 6.0 t passable), demolition of the weir in planning |
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Sossenheim - Nied | 15.1 | Pedestrian bridge with natural gas pipeline |
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Sossenheim - Nied | 16.1 |
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Höchst - Nied | 16.7 | Pedestrian bridge as a replacement for the footbridge over the demolished Höchst Weir |
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Highest weir | Höchst - Nied | 16.8 | Weir system for Nidda regulation with pedestrian walkway, now demolished except for a tower |
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Regional trains, Königsteiner Bahn | Nied | 17.2 | 1838 | The arched sandstone bridge designed by Paul Camille von Denis is the second oldest railway bridge in Germany and is still almost in its original state, making it one of the few of its kind from the early days of the railway industry . |
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Nied | 17.3 | The bridge of the Taunus Railway is used by regional trains on the Main-Lahn-Bahn today. |
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Old Nieder Niddabrücke |
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Nied | 17.7 | 1824 |
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New Nieder Niddabrücke ( Mainzer Landstrasse ) |
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Nied | 17.8 | (1951) 2008 | The previous structure was the first prestressed concrete bridge in Frankfurt. A monitoring device measured the deformation of the bridge and automatically informed the road construction authority by telephone if critical values occurred, hence also called the bell bridge. In 2008 it was replaced by a new building. |
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Höchst - Nied | 18.4 | 1913 | Reinforced concrete pedestrian arch bridge - and Bridge of Sighs or Gaasebrickelsche called |
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Web links
Commons : Niddabrücken in Frankfurt - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ Sign on the north side of the bridge with a memorial stone from 1827