Lower Rhine Bridge Wesel
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 44 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 17 ″ E
 Lower Rhine Bridge Wesel
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Bundesstrasse 58 | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Wesel | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 772.5 m | |
| width | 27.5 m | |
| Longest span | 334.8 m | |
| Construction height | 3.75 m | |
| building-costs | € 44 million (equivalent to € 50 million today) |
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| start of building | 2005 | |
| completion | 2009 | |
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The Lower Rhine bridge Wesel is a road bridge spanning as part of the national highway 58 on the Lower Rhine southwest of Wesel at river kilometer 814 the Rhine .
As part of the construction of the Wesel bypass for the federal highway 58 , a new Rhine crossing has been built downstream next to the existing bridge since May 2005. On November 30, 2009, the Niederrheinbrücke Wesel was officially opened to traffic with a four-month delay. The construction costs of the new bridge amounted to 44 million euros.
Lower Rhine Bridge (2009)
draft
The bridge train is a total of 772.54 m long, has four lanes and a walkway and bike path on both sides. The structure spans the Rhine and the foreland between the flood dams. In the river area, a stream opening at least 300 m wide and a clear height of 9.1 m at the highest navigable water level must be kept free. Under these conditions, a single-hip cable - stayed bridge with a λ-shaped 130 m high pylon on the left bank of the Rhine was chosen as the bridge construction over the Rhine .
construction
- superstructure
On the left bank of the Rhine, the bridge consists of a foreland bridge with six fields and 375.96 m in length. The field in front of the abutment has a span of 53.24 m, the remaining five openings span over 64.54 m. This is followed by the 334.82 m long stream field and on the right bank of the Rhine a field 61.76 m long. The entire superstructure has no expansion joints between the abutments and is designed as a continuous beam in the longitudinal direction , of which 396 m is a prestressed concrete structure in the foreland on the left bank of the Rhine and 376 m is a steel structure in the river area.
In the transverse direction, the prestressed concrete structure consists of a two-cell, 27.5 m wide box girder cross-section. In the area of the rope anchorages, the cross-section has three cells. The cantilevered deck is supported by inclined prefabricated struts at a distance of around 4.0 m. The construction height is 3.75 m and is constant. The geometry of the steel superstructure section is analogous.
The 130 m high pylon of the cable-stayed bridge has a λ-shape and is completely separate from the bridge girder. The stems have a rectangular hollow cross-section made of reinforced concrete. In the central axis of the bridge, six rope groups, each consisting of four individual ropes, are anchored in the pylons on both sides. In the stream field, these are arranged in clusters, the anchoring in the reinforced concrete superstructure is harp-shaped.
- Substructures and foundation
The pylon posts are clamped in a pillar disc, which is based on large bored piles . The remaining bridge piers and the abutments are founded in the same way.
Construction work
The prestressed concrete foreland bridge was constructed using the incremental launching method. This was followed by the cable-stayed cantilever assembly of the current field.
particularities
On March 21, 2012 Altana inaugurated the accent lighting for the Lower Rhine Bridge in Wesel. Since then, the bridge shines in a purple-blue light after dusk.
history
Rheinbaben Bridge (1917–1945)
The first road bridge over the Rhine near Wesel was opened to traffic on July 27, 1917 under the name Rheinbabenbrücke . The building came about in particular on the initiative of the Prussian Minister of State and Upper President of the Rhine Province Georg von Rheinbaben . It was the northernmost German Rhine bridge for road traffic. The 510 m long structure had six openings and was a steel framework construction with a three-span cantilever bridge over the Rhine. The span in the main field was 150 m, the construction height was a maximum of 9.0 m above the main pillars, in the remaining areas 5.0 m. On March 10, 1945 the bridge was blown up.
Montgomery Bridge (1946-1950)
By the end of May 1945, a mostly wooden temporary bridge with 35 pile bays and spans of around 16 m and in the middle of the river of around 28 m had been built on the downstream side of the destroyed Rheinbaben Bridge. This was replaced on February 5, 1946 by a Bailey Bridge , a British pioneer bridge construction, which was named Montgomery Bridge . An approximately 620 m long Bailey bridge device was used for each of the two lanes. A cycle path was arranged between these and a sidewalk on each side. The structure had standard support widths of 73.15 m, the piers consisted of 18 driven piles each with a pile head plate.
Rhine bridge Wesel (1950-2009)
Construction of the replacement bridge began in 1950; the bridge was inaugurated on June 18, 1953. For cost reasons, the bridge was built in the same location on the foundations of the Rheinbaben Bridge from 1917. The structure had two lanes and two sidewalks with a useful width of 11.6 m. The construction costs amounted to DM 7.6 million (equivalent to € 19.8 million today). The old superstructure was demolished by autumn 2013.
- construction
The total length of the 508.5 m long bridge consisted of a foreland bridge on the right bank of the Rhine with 54.25 m span, a two-span foreland bridge on the left bank of the Rhine with spans of 55.5 m and 54.75 m and the river bridge. The approach bridges were prestressed concrete structures , the main bridge was a three-span, postless strut truss bridge made of steel with the continuous girder as a structural system in the longitudinal direction. The spans of the 344 m long structure are 97 m in the peripheral areas and 150 m in the central area. The truss with parallel straps and the roadway below had a system height of 12.0 m with a main girder center distance of 9.4 m. The deck was made of reinforced concrete.
Picture gallery
In the foreground the old railway bridge
In the foreground an old late poplar
In the foreground the television station
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See also
literature
- Ehrenberg: The new railway bridge over the Rhine near Wesel. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Volume 72, No. 15 (April 14, 1928), pp. 485–490.
- Federal Minister of Transport: Rhine Bridge Rees-Kalkar. Road bridges over the Rhine. Federal Highway Research Institute, Bonn 1967.
- Gregor Gebert, Stefan Bohm, Peter Sprinke, Markus Hamme, Hans Löckmann, Helmut Reinsch: The new Rhine bridge in Wesel - design planning and tender. In: Steel construction. Vol. 76, Issue 9, 2007, ISSN 0038-9145 , pp. 657-670, doi : 10.1002 / stab.200710070 .
Web links
- Project homepage Rheinbrücke Wesel
- Project description of the State Office for Road Construction (PDF file; 1.10 MB)
- Project description engineering company Schüßler-Plan
- Structurae: Niederrhein Bridge (2009)
- Photo gallery: Bridges in Wesel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girschik: At a slow pace over the Rhine bridge near Wesel. NRZ: NRW, November 30, 2009
- ↑ Altana AG: Inauguration of the accent lighting Niederrheinbrücke Wesel. March 21, 2012, accessed October 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Rheinbruecke-Wesel.de: The Rheinbabenbrücke
- ↑ Rheinbruecke-Wesel.de: The Montgomerybrücke
- ↑ www.wesel.de:The Wesel Rhine bridges from 1945
- ↑ Rhine bridge-Wesel.de bridges compared
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The next bridge upstream: Beeckerwerther Bridge |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Wesel railway bridge (destroyed in 1945) Rhine bridge Rees-Kalkar |