Merefa-Kherson Bridge
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 4 ″ N , 35 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E
| Merefa-Kherson Bridge Merefo-Khersonskyi mist |
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| Official name | Мерефо-Херсонський міст / Merefo-Chersonskyj mist | |
| Crossing of | Dnepr | |
| place | Dnipro | |
| construction | Reinforced concrete - arch bridge | |
| overall length | 1610 m | |
| Longest span | 110 m | |
| start of building | 1912 | |
| completion | 1932, 1948 | |
| opening | December 21, 1931 | |
| planner | GP Perederi (1912) | |
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The Merefa-Kherson Bridge ( Ukrainian Мерефо-Херсонський міст / Merefo-Chersonskyj crap , Russian Мерефо-Херсонский мост / Merefo-Chersonski most ) is a 1,610 meter long railway bridge over the Dnieper in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro .
The second oldest bridge in the city and the first railway arch bridge in the Soviet Union was the largest arch bridge in Europe at the time of its construction and is listed as a unique engineering structure in the register of architectural monuments of Ukraine (FN P-86, 1 to 493 PS, op. 1).
description
The single-track bridge leads from the high right bank of the Dnieper over the Sicheslavlavska Naberezhna embankment and the Bishop's Canal ( Архієрейська протока ), a branch of the Dnieper, then leads in a wide curve high over the monastery island and then crosses the main branch of the river, which is 860 m wide and finally the Marshala Malynos'koho embankment on the left bank, where it joins a railway embankment.
It consists of a series of 33 parabolic reinforced concrete arches with the following pillar spacing: 3 × 18 + 13 × 33 + 5 × 57 + 2 × 110 + 9 × 57 m. A 75 m long girder bridge with 5 openings forms the connection to the embankment. The 3 very short arches on the slope of the right bank are followed by 14 smaller ones across the shore road, the canal and the island. The river bridge consists of two 110 m wide arches with a central track girder, flanked by 5 large, 57 m wide arches on the right and 9 equally large arches on the left side of the river. Originally the bridge had two steel trusses over the two wide openings, but these were replaced by the two wide concrete arches during the reconstruction in 1948.
About 165 m upstream from the bridge is the mast of an overhead line crossing in the Dnieper.
history
Already during the Russian Empire it was decided to build a railway bridge in what was then Yekaterinoslav for the Merefa - Kherson railway line . The name of the route also gave the bridge its name.
The first construction activities took place between 1912 and 1916, but were then interrupted by the First World War , the subsequent turmoil of the Russian Civil War and the post-revolutionary transformations. Construction of the bridge was resumed in the early 1930s, and after only one year and four months of construction, the last cubic meter of concrete was laid on October 24, 1932. Commissioning took place on December 21 of the same year.
During the Second World War was it was born from Dnepropetrovsk retreating Red Army rendered unusable. The German occupiers repaired the bridge and renamed it Ewald von Kleist Bridge after Colonel General von Kleist , who personally came to the opening of "his" bridge . When the Wehrmacht withdrew , they destroyed the bridge again. After the war it was rebuilt.
See also
Web links
- All about bridges - Merefa-Kherson Bridge over the Dnepr (Russian)
- History of the city bridges Dnipro (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Dnipro City Bridges , (Russian); last accessed on February 7, 2014
- ↑ Central State Archive of Science and Technology Ukraine ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , (Ukrainian); last accessed on February 7, 2014
- ↑ Mykhailo Korniev: Bridge Engineering in Ukraine . In: Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan (Eds.): Handbook of International Bridge Engineering . CRC Press, Boca Raton 2014, ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3 , pp. 865, 881 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Volodymyr Volotsiuga: Arch Bridges in Ukraine. In: 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges - ARCH2016, 2. – 7. October 2016, Wroclaw
