Main bridges in Schweinfurt
Of its total length of 527 kilometers, the Main flows for around 8 km, roughly between river km 336 and 328, through Schweinfurt . There are a total of 62 bridges within the narrow city limits. The city has seven Main bridges that cross the Main or only individual Main arms or only the Altmain . Underneath is a railway bridge, all others are road bridges. The first four of the bridges listed below from east to west (downstream) completely cross the Main.
Max Bridge
A historical previous building was called the Dust Bridge .
Today's bridge
The Maxbrücke is a three-lane road bridge (two lanes and one bus lane) and leads to the old town . The current bridge was built from 1958 to 1960 and is 259 m long. State road St 2272 runs over it. The bridge was built in prestressed concrete by the Dyckerhoff & Widmann company and is supported by four supports. The city's first Main Bridge stood in its place. The name giver for the bridge and its two predecessors is King Maximilian II of Bavaria .
In 1997 the bridge was completely renovated and reinforced for the first time, the pavement caps were widened and a two-sided, shared footpath and bike path was created. The prestressed concrete bridge was renovated again in 2017 for 1.7 million euros. In the 2020s it is to be completely demolished and replaced by a new building with at least three lanes (including the bus lane) into the city. Since it has not yet been politically decided whether a tram line should run over the new Maxbrücke, this has not been taken into account in the planning so far (August 2019).
history
Today's Maxbrücke is already the seventh bridge at this point and, in contrast to all its predecessors, spans not only the main Main but also the southern Saumain branch . Until the end of the 14th century , traffic across the Main near Schweinfurt was only possible by ferry . Only a privilege granted by King Wenceslas in 1397 allowed the city to build bridges, mills and hydraulic structures of all kinds on the Main and to impose a tariff to cover the construction costs. The bridge was built by 1408 at the latest, where damage from ice drift was reported. And that, in connection with floods, remained the big issue into the 20th century . The covered wooden bridge that can be seen in the adjacent figure was dust bridge named because of the bridge Lehmbelag soil dusted when a car drove over it. In 1902 the third last bridge from today's perspective (2018) was built at this point, a steel bridge that was blown up by the Germans in 1945. The bridge was then reconstructed using the steel parts, only with a new railing. It was finally opened in 1960 after the above bridge was completed.
The bridge gate, which was demolished in 1833, was built on the northern side of the Main, on the city wall. After a copper engraving from the 19th century , the Leopoldina was founded there in 1652 , the oldest permanent natural research academy in the world and today's National Academy of Sciences (see: Brückentor (Schweinfurt) ) .
Gerolzhöfer Bridge
The Gerolzhöfer Bridge (Main-Km 331.47) is a single-track steel railway bridge on the Schweinfurt Hbf – Kitzingen-Etwashausen railway line (km 49.149), which leads over Gerolzhofen and is currently (2017) not in operation except for goods traffic in the Schweinfurt area. For several years there have been various efforts to bring the railway line back into operation. The bridge was built in 1903 and blown up by the Wehrmacht in 1945 . In 1946 a temporary bridge was built. The northern part of the superstructure of the subsequent, today's bridge comes from the Mainbrücke Wertheim . After the line was closed in 1979, it was dismantled in the summer of 1984 and transported to Schweinfurt by pontoons and rebuilt as a replacement superstructure. The structure has a length of 234 meters.
Rooster Hill Bridge
The Hahnenhügel Bridge is a four-lane road bridge that was built as the third Main Bridge 1964–1967 and is 283 m long. The federal highway 286 leads over them . With over 41,800 (2011) vehicles a day, it forms the main South Main access to the city center . Since the steel bridge was only designed for 10,000 vehicles, it no longer meets today's requirements and is to be replaced immediately after the demolition and new construction of today's Maxbrücke with a five or six-lane bridge with a service life of 70 years, with two lanes out of town and three or four into town. There will be no traffic obstruction during the demolition and new construction, as the first part of the new bridge will be built next to the four-lane old bridge, which will only then be torn down and built as the second part of the new five or six-lane bridge.
Main bridge Oberndorf
The Main Bridge Oberndorf (Main km 329.74) is the fourth and westernmost bridge that completely crosses the Main. It is a six-lane bridge (four lanes and two emergency lanes), completion 1970/1994, total length 374 m, the federal highway 70 . It consists of two parallel bridges. The northern bridge was built from 1968 to 1970 as half a motorway bridge (two lanes and one hard shoulder) for the then new route of federal highway 26 , and the southern bridge from 1993 to 1994 for the expressway that was converted into a motorway. Like the Hahnenhügel Bridge, more than 40,000 (2017) vehicles cross the bridge every day.
Marienbrücke
The Marienbrücke (Main-km 332.56) is a two-lane road bridge and only crosses the southern branch of the Main, the Saumain . Today's bridge was built in 1946 as a reinforced concrete bridge and until the opening of today's Maxbrücke in 1960 formed the middle part of the Main Valley crossing, between the old Maxbrücke in the north and the Ludwigsbrücke in the south. Since then, the Maxbrücke has been running in the area of its southern section over the Saumain near and almost parallel to the Marienbrücke. The latter today only has the task of enabling the approach to the Main Island Bleichrasen and the Böckleinsinsel . The first bridge stood in its place as early as 1400 (see picture of the bridge in the 17th century: Maxbrücke ) . The Marienbrücke is in no way related to the Marienbach . The bridge and its predecessor are named after Marie von Prussia , who became Queen of Bavaria through the marriage of King Maximilian II of Bavaria , who gave the Maxbrücke its name .
Ludwigsbrücke
The Ludwigsbrücke connects to the Maxbrücke to the south and enables a complete crossing of the Main Valley on the route of the first and oldest bridge passage. The Ludwigsbrücke crosses the Altmaintal, through which larger amounts of Main water only flow when there is a strong flood, which then transforms the Altmaintal into a river arm. The bridge is a two-lane road bridge with three lanes at the southern end, over which the state road St 2272 runs. At the southern end of the bridge is the Schweinfurt Sennfeld train station (Sennfelder Bahnhof) . The bridge was built in the 1960s as a reinforced concrete bridge to replace the previous steel bridge with a lattice-shaped superstructure. The namesake for the bridge and its predecessor buildings are kings of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The bridge was renovated in 2017.
Bridge between the Maininsel Bleichrasen and the Böckleinsinsel
The bridge between the Maininsel Bleichrasen and the Böckleinsinsel leads over a small branch of the Main (picture: see introduction) . The latter island can therefore only be reached from the city center by crossing a total of three bridges. Before that, you have to cross the Max Bridge to the south, then Ludwigsbrücke again to the north and finally the island connection bridge to the east under the Max Bridge. In historical times there was no bridge at this strategically important place, the Böckleinsinsel could only be reached by boat.
Projects
Abandoned project Fourth Main Bridge
The fourth Main Bridge is a discontinued project. Not far east of the Schweinfurt barrage, with a pedestrian walkway that is no longer public, another four-lane road bridge had been planned in the 1960s. It was originally called the Third Main Bridge , after the construction of the Oberndorfer Main Bridge as the Fourth Main Bridge and finally by the Greens for ideological reasons, including the railway bridge (Gerolzhöfer Bridge), as the Fifth Main Bridge . The bridge was supposed to span the Main Main, Lock Canal and Saumain and was sketched as a 350 m long, single-hip cable - stayed bridge as early as the 1960s , with a pylon on one of the two Main islands in between. The major project was finally abandoned by the Schweinfurt city council in the 1990s in view of the enormous costs with only limited benefits. Because the follow-up project, the construction of the Spitalseespange , as the western end of the old town ring, had previously been abandoned. The planned route is still visible today on the lock island through a lane across the island.
web
A pedestrian and cycle path across the Main west of the Maxbrücke was planned under the aegis of the former mayor Gudrun Grieser around the year 2000, but has not been discussed in recent times.
See also
Web links
- Peter Hofmann: Schweinfurt guide / Main bridges
- Peter Hofmann: Schweinfurt guide / construction of the Maxbrücke 1902, cost calculation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Schweinfurt has 62 bridges , January 28, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e Peter Hofmann: Schweinfurt guide
- ↑ a b c d Schweinfurter Tagblatt: After the Max new building of the Hahnenhügel Bridge , April 12, 2017
- ↑ a b Cultural Office of the City of Schweinfurt: River and Diligence , Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach Abbey
- ↑ mainpost.de: Neue Maxbrücke comes before or after the State Garden Show 2026, August 6, 2019. Retrieved on August 8, 2019 .
- ^ Paul Ultsch: Back then in Schweinfurt . Book and idea publishing company, Schweinfurt, ISBN 3-9800480-1-2 , p. 40 ff.
- ↑ a b c Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Ludwigsbrücke closed until September , August 15, 2017