Niddabrücke Assenheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 56 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 54" E
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| Official name | Niddabrücke Assenheim | |
| use | Railway bridge | |
| Convicted | Friedberg – Hanau railway line | |
| Subjugated | Nidda | |
| place | Niddatal - Assenheim | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 300 m | |
| Longest span | 50 m | |
| height | 23 m | |
| completion | 1929 | |
| opening | November 24, 1929 | |
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The Niddabrücke Assenheim is a railway bridge on the electrified main line Friedberg – Hanau at a distance of 6.3 kilometers and at 300 meters the longest railway bridge in Hesse outside of the new lines .
history
The bridge is necessary at this point, as the route crosses the wide valley of the Nidda with the river and floodplain . The Niddabrücke Assenheim is named after the neighboring Assenheim , today a district of Niddatal .
Historic bridge
The original bridge from 1880/81 was the most elaborate engineering structure on the Friedberg – Hanau route and the main reason why its northern section could only be opened two years after the southern one. This first bridge - double-tracked from the start - had a height of 26 meters and consisted of nine iron girders, each 32.5 meters long, in the shape of a fish belly, which rested on iron lattice pillars, which in turn stood on stone foundations. When, after the First World War, the goods train connection between the Ruhr area and Bavaria was expanded and, among other things, the Friedberg – Hanau route was used, the bridge proved to be too weak for the heavy load. It was replaced by a new building.
Today's bridge
The current bridge was built in 1929. She is an iron - truss bridge whose supporting truss boxes are below the roadway. The bridge has 6 segments that rest on 5 concrete pillars in the middle. The catenary masts on the bridge - the line was electrified in 1960 - are each raised on the bridge piers. The bridge was last completely renovated in 2007/2008.
Worth knowing
The Niddabrücke Assenheim is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
literature
- Dieter Eckert: The Assenheim Viaduct . In: Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) (Ed.): Connection to the wide world: On the changeful development of the railway in Oberhessen , Friedberg 2014 (2015), ISBN 978-3-9815015-5-1 , pp. 214f.
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss publishing house. Stuttgart, 2005. Vol. 2.2, p. 612. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
- Heinz Wionski: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II, Part 2, Friedberg to Wöllstadt. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ), p. 836f.