Main Neckar Bridge

This article describes today's bridge to the main train station. For the bridge to the Main-Neckar train station used from 1848–1888, see Friedensbrücke (Frankfurt am Main) .

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 14 ″  E

Main Neckar Bridge
View from the west
use	Railway bridge footbridge
Crossing of	Main
place	Gutleutviertel Sachsenhausen Niederrad (Main km 32.77)
construction	Parallel steel framework
overall length	273 m
width	19.60 m
Headroom	7.50 m
construction time	1881/82, 1946
location

Viewed from the north from track height

The Main-Neckar Bridge in Frankfurt am Main is a steel trussed railway bridge from the late 19th century . The bridge spans the Main at river kilometer 32.770 between the north Main Gutleutviertel and the south Main districts Niederrad and Sachsenhausen .

location

The Main-Neckar Bridge is located in the north of Main, directly west of the West Harbor and in the south of Main, cuts through the grounds of the University Hospital .

It connects the main station with the Gleisdreieck west of the Sachsenhausen Heimatsiedlung as well as the Louisa train station (towards Darmstadt ) and the Stresemannallee stop (towards Südbahnhof ).

The bridge carries four standard gauge tracks. The Main-Neckar-Bahn runs over the western superstructure from Frankfurt via Darmstadt to Heidelberg with two tracks. The Frankfurt-Bebraer-Eisenbahn runs over the east with a connection to the Frankfurt-Hanauer-Eisenbahn to Hanau and Fulda . A footbridge is attached to the east side of the bridge .

Immediately to the west of the southern pillar of the Main-Neckar Bridge, the almost 14-kilometer-long Königsbach, which rises near the city of Dreieich, flows into the Main.

history

The bridge, like the smaller Alte Niederräder bridge located further downstream , was planned as part of the rail traffic plan of the Frankfurt Directorate of the Royal Prussian State Railways, newly founded in 1871, as part of the construction of the new main train station ( Frankfurter Centralbahnhof ). For this purpose, all railway systems, including the Main crossings, had to be moved about one kilometer to the west. The new Main-Neckar-Bridge replaced the old Main-Neckar-Bridge , which is located about a kilometer further upstream and is now used as a Friedensbrücke for road traffic.

The new Main-Neckar Bridge was built in 1883/84 in the north of Main on the grounds of the Gutleuthöfe , a medieval asylum for lepers . It was therefore initially called the bridge at the Gutleuthöfe . It was put into operation for goods traffic on August 1, 1885 and for passenger traffic on August 18, 1888. Because of the footbridge, the new bridge also meant a great relief for the Niederräder residents, who no longer had to rely on the ferry to Griesheim or long detours to the next bridge.

In 1927 the Main-Neckar Bridge and the Niederräder Bridge were converted into steel truss bridges .

In March 1945, the Main-Neckar Bridge - like all other Frankfurt Main bridges - was blown up by Wehrmacht pioneers. Reconstruction began in January 1946. It was able to be put back into operation in November 1946.

In 1957, the bridge was converted as part of the electrification of the railway. Since the bridge does not have the passage height of 5.30 meters that is otherwise prescribed by Deutsche Bahn , but only 5 meters, trains can only drive on the bridge at reduced speed.

1978 determined scouring at the bridge have been eliminated by the use of a special vessel.

literature

• Wolfram Gorr: Frankfurt bridges. Locks, ferries, tunnels and bridges of the Main. Frankfurt am Main 1982: Frankfurter Societät. ISBN 3-7973-0393-9

Web links

Commons : Main-Neckar-Brücke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Main Neckar Bridge. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 40 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; Retrieved January 18, 2015 . 
3. ^ Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar. Bensheim-Auerbach 1985, p. 9.