Main bridge Freudenberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 34 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 19 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Subjugated | Main | |
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Freudenberg (Baden) , Kirschfurt (Main km 132,700) |
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| construction | T-beam bridge | |
| overall length | 209 m | |
| Longest span | 58 m | |
| Headroom | 6.30 m | |
| opening | 1950 | |
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The Main Bridge Freudenberg is a road bridge in Lower Franconia that spans the Main at river kilometers 132.700 with the state border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . It crosses the state road 2316. The structure has two lanes and sidewalks on both sides and connects Freudenberg with Kirschfurt , a district of Collenberg .
history
On May 21, 1906, the Miltenberg – Stadtprozelten railway line on the right bank of the Main in Bavaria was opened. A bridge over the Main as a permanent link between Freudenberg and its train station on Bavarian territory was built from June 1906 to November 1907, following the conclusion of a state treaty between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden . The structure had six quarry stone masonry arches spanning 30 to 33 m. The construction costs amounted to 540,000 Mk without the purchase of land and half were borne by the two countries.
During the Second World War , German troops blew up the bridge on the night of March 30-31, 1945, destroying all six arches. The reconstruction of the bridge began in June 1949 with a rubble clearance.
Then the abutments were rebuilt and three new pillars were built. The assembly of the superstructure of the steel girder bridge began in the spring of 1950, the deck slab was concreted by September. The building was inaugurated on November 28, 1950 and opened to traffic. The construction costs amounted to 880,000 DM . Until the bridge was completed, a ferry service with a ferry on the high wire had been set up.
construction
The girder bridge from 1950 is a composite construction . It has two steel solid wall girders , which are connected to one another by cross frames, and an overhead composite deck made of reinforced concrete. The steel structure had a mass of 480 t. The building system in the longitudinal direction is the single- span girder with spans of 45 m and 48 m for the two end spans and the continuous girder with spans of 58 m each for the two central openings . The concrete pillars are clad with red sandstone and have a width of 5.0 m for the two outer dividing pillars and 2.7 m for the middle pillar.
sculpture
The sculpture Wodan and the sword in the tree by the artist Jens Nettlich from Winningen has stood next to the pulpit of the southern bridge pillar in the course of Nibelungenstrasse since 2002 .
reception
Bernhard Setzwein addressed the construction of the bridge, its demolition in 1945 and the ferry operation with the Niegedacht ferry until 1950 in his play Niegedacht , which was commissioned by the Freudenberger Burgschauspielverein and performed at Freudenberg Castle in the summer of 2003 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Electronic Waterway Information Service (ELWIS): Directory of the bridge clearance heights / widths in the GDWS ASt Süd - Main district. (PDF 22 kB) (No longer available online.) January 1, 2015, archived from the original on January 15, 2015 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Outdoor theater. In: Pro-Magazin , issue 5/2003. Citizens' Initiative per Region Heilbronn-Franken eV, Heilbronn 2003 ( PDF , 127 kB)
literature
- E. Schwaab: Reconstruction of the Bavarian road bridges on the lower Main. In: On the handover of the Main Bridge Wertheim-Kreuzwertheim April 1, 1953 , published by the North Baden Regional Council
Web links
- freudenberg-main.de: Construction of the 1st Main Bridge in 1907 ( Memento from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Sculptures for the Nibelungenlied