Meiningen Bridge

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Electricity Bridge (2018)

The Meiningenbrücke is a bridge over the Meiningenstrom . It connects the Zingst peninsula with the mainland near Bresewitz in the Vorpommern-Rügen district .

history

South side of the closed bridge (2018)
West side

After the approval of the Barth – Zingst – Prerow railway line, the so-called Darßbahn , construction of the Meiningen Bridge began in 1908. On December 1, 1910, after two years of construction, the bridge was opened to traffic, but construction continued until 1912. Fixing work on the embankments and work on the tail units still had to be carried out. They were built by the iron construction company Louis Eilers from Hanover-Herrenhausen. Shortly before the Second World War, rail traffic to Prerow and Zingst reached its greatest density. KdF special trains brought vacationers to the vacation areas by the thousands. At the end of the war, courageous Zingsters prevented the planned demolition of the Meiningen Bridge. After the Second World War , the tracks from Bresewitz to Zingst and Prerow were dismantled as reparations for the Soviet Union. In 1947 the last train crossed the bridge. The structure has only been used as a road bridge since the tracks were dismantled. On January 1, 1964, the bridge was handed over to the road administration.

The Darßbahn was rebuilt in the 1960s to Bresewitz - up to about 100 m before the bridge - and Bresewitz served as a freight station for the transport of troops and materials for the National People's Army to the Zingst site.

To relieve the only one-lane former railway bridge, a 105 m long temporary bridge and a 135 m long floating bridge with a load capacity of 60 t were built by NVA pioneers to the west of it and handed over on May 15, 1980. In order to allow a ship passage, the temporary bridge had to be swum out every time. In winter the temporary bridge was completely floated out. It was used until 2011 for the direction of travel from Darß, while the swing bridge served the north-facing road traffic to Darß; in winter the traffic was led alternately over the Meiningen Bridge by a traffic light control. In 2012 the pontoon bridge was replaced by a two-lane transition structure and the swing bridge was closed to traffic.

The Usedomer Bäderbahn has agreed with the municipalities on the route to reactivate the Darßbahn to Prerow by 2015. In a press release on August 27, 2010 it was announced that the state government had approved the construction of the new line and that planning for the reconstruction could begin. The cost of the 19-kilometer route is estimated at 38 million euros. The Meiningen Bridge is to be rebuilt as a combined road and rail bridge.

In July 2011, the construction of a temporary bridge began. This 230-meter-long temporary bridge has two lanes, with a steel structure equipped with a folding mechanism allowing the ship to pass through. The folding construction was installed on February 3, 2012. On March 15, 2012, a 47-meter-long, 146-tonne bridge element was floated in and anchored on base bearings.

The planning for the new construction of the combined bridge for trains, cars, cyclists and pedestrians was delayed by several years. Finally, the financing of the railway line from Barth via Zingst to Prerow was secured in 2020. Thereupon the Stralsund road construction authority asked two German engineering offices to submit an offer for the planning of the bridge. The contract is to be awarded in autumn 2020. The total construction time for the line is expected to be at least 2027/28.

technical description

Swing bridge

The steel truss bridge consists of a m-phase bridge having a length of 61,60, 14 from each approximately 26 m long Vorflutbrücken and a swing bridge m with a length of 43.70. The bridge has a total length of around 470 m.

The swing bridge spans the 24.50 m wide and up to 10 m deep channel and the shallow water in front of Timmort with 17.80 m. It opens to the west. It is lifted from the four supporting spindles and rotated by an electric motor through four running wheels on rails. The roadway is 3.75 m wide. Due to the surrounding marshy terrain, the bridge was founded on wooden piles on which the concrete pillars rest. The control house for the bridge keeper is located on the girder portal of the swing bridge . For this a house was built next to the bridge in Timmort.

Bridge opening for shipping

Open swing bridge

The bridge is opened for ship passages in and out of the lagoon waters to the west at fixed times, but only when there is a need for local shipping. Depending on the season, the bridge is opened up to four times a day in summer and once or twice a week in winter.

Web links

Commons : Meiningenbrücke Zingst  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Green light for Darßbahn plans. In: Press Release No. 274/10. Ministry of Transport, Building and Regional Development Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, August 27, 2010, accessed on August 27, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Press release of the WSA Stralsund, July 31, 2011 ( Memento of the original of April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elwis.de
  3. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Ingenieurbüro für Verkehrsbau, January 24, 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / miv-schwerin.de
  4. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung Stralsund, March 16, 2012
  5. ↑ Cabinet decides to build the Darßbahn , NDR report from August 18, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020
  6. ↑ Bridge opening times , Stralsund Waterways and Shipping Office, accessed on May 15, 2016

Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 29.7 ″  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 0.5 ″  E