Luitpold Bridge (Passau)

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The Luitpold Bridge over the Danube from below the Veste Oberhaus

The Luitpoldbrücke (colloquially often just called "suspension bridge") is a 208 m long suspension bridge in Passau , which connects the tip of the old town with the Angerstraße below the Oberhaus fortress shortly before the Ilz joins the Danube . The structure has spanned the Danube at river kilometer 2225.7 since 1910 with a span of 126 m . On the south side, the suspension cables are routed over a pylon and anchored in the ground with anchor blocks, on the north side they are anchored in a rock wall below the fortress Oberhaus.

The "suspension bridge" with the old town in the background

The bridge was planned to replace a pedestrian suspension bridge built in 1869 about 100 m downstream, the wire cables of which were badly damaged by corrosion around 1900. Initial considerations in favor of a cost-effective bridge construction with iron sickle girders towering over the river led to numerous protests directed against the feared destruction of the cityscape. Ultimately, a decision was made for a much more complex cable suspension bridge, which was wider and more load-bearing than the old pedestrian bridge, but which, due to the filigree structure made of wire cables, hardly interfered with the city or landscape.

First, two 25 cm steel ropes, each with a breaking strength of 960 tons, were stretched across the Danube. 40 cross girders were assembled from a pontoon platform . The sidewalks on both sides of the carriageway were covered with reinforced concrete slabs and the street was paved. The inauguration took place in 1911. On the Passau side it has normal pylons, on the slope side, in which the supporting cables are anchored, only small pylons.

Shortly before the end of the Second World War on May 2, 1945, just before the invasion of American troops, the bridge was partially blown up. Donations and support from the Bavarian ministries made it possible to repair the building relatively quickly and to reopen it for traffic on August 17, 1948. Engineer Rudolf Barbré was significantly involved in the reconstruction .

(M in the apex 5.95; adjacent bridges have 7.70 or 9.50 m) with a clearance of only 5.15 m it is for the Donauschifffahrt one of the lowest bridges over the Danube.

Since the beginning of April 2017, due to a general renovation, the bridge has been closed to traffic (exception: pedestrians and cyclists) until probably mid-2018.

literature

  • o. V .: The new suspension bridge over the Danube in Passau. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 46, 1912, No. 1 (from January 3, 1912), pp. 6–9 and No. 2 (from January 6, 1912), pp. 13–15 ( digitized in btu, Brandenburgische Technische University of Cottbus).
  • Rudolf Barbré: New construction of the Luitpold suspension bridge over the Danube near Passau , Stahlbau, 1952, pp. 9, 25, 56

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Danube bridges at donauschifffahrt.info ( memento of the original from December 15, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.donauschifffahrt.info
  2. ↑ ck: Suspension bridge construction site: fully on target in terms of time and costs. www.pnp.de, January 14, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2018 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 32.2 "  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 17.7"  E