Nilkheim Main Bridge
Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 11 ″ N , 9 ° 7 ′ 11 ″ E
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| use | Railway bridge | |
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Aschaffenburg – Höchst (Odenwald) railway line Aschaffenburg port railway |
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| Subjugated | Main | |
| place | Aschaffenburg ( Nilkheim , Obernau ) | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 274 m | |
| Longest span | 75 m | |
| Headroom | 8.55 m | |
| completion | 1910 | |
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The Nilkheim Main Bridge is a single-track railway bridge on the Aschaffenburg – Höchst (Odenwald) line at 3.126 km. The building from 1910 spans the Main at river kilometer 89.75 in Aschaffenburg , between the districts of Nilkheim and Obernau . The bridge was not destroyed in World War II.
history
The Main Bridge was built between 1909 and 1910 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways as part of the construction of the line between the Aschaffenburg-Süd and Höchst stations in the Odenwald . The building was commissioned on May 1, 1911. With the opening of the unfortunately state port in 1921, the bridge also became part of the feeder route of the port railway.
During the Second World War, on March 25, 1945, US troops were able to occupy the Nilkheim Main Bridge without being destroyed. Since the cessation of freight traffic on the Bachgaubahn on September 28, 1991, the bridge still serves as the feeder track to the Nilkheim industrial area west and the state port.
The bridge is listed under the number D-6-61-000-434 on the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation.
Since 2010 there has been a monument by the sculptor Florian Wehner from Bad Neustadt on the western bank , which consists of four columns and reminds of the history of the railway bridge.
construction
The 274-meter-long straight bridge consists on both sides of the Main in the foreland of an Art Nouveau arched bridge with red sandstone, each with two openings. The associated bridge piers have decoratively designed, rounded icebreakers at the bottom , are coffered above and are closed at the top by softly profiled parapet heads.
The river bridge standing between the approach bridges has two steel lattice girders with the central pillar in the Main. The 75-meter-long, riveted lattice girders have an underlying carriageway and have curved upper chords and a strut framework with posts.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Volume 2.2. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 956.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Electronic Waterway Information Service (ELWIS): Directory of the bridge clearance heights / widths in the GDWS ASt Süd - Main district. (PDF 22 kB) (No longer available online.) January 1, 2015, archived from the original on January 15, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ west-wall.de: Gerald Oftmann: A preserved bunker of the Wetterau-Main-Tauber position in Aschaffenburg-Nilkheim ( Memento from March 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
