North Railway Bridge

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 39 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 22 ″  E

North Railway Bridge
North Railway Bridge
use	Railway bridge
Convicted	Nordbahn , Nordwestbahn Wiener Schnellbahn
Crossing of	Danube , New Danube
place	Vienna
opening	1877; May 31, 1959 (after war damage)
closure	1945 (blown up)
location

The northern railway bridge connects the Vienna districts of Brigittenau and Floridsdorf . The trains of the Nordbahn , the Nordwestbahn and the Wiener Schnellbahn roll across the Danube on it . It also enabled pedestrians to cross the river until the U6 Danube bridge , now known as the Georg-Danzer-Steg , opened.

On January 6, 1838, the first train of the Emperor Ferdinand's Northern Railway crossed the two wooden bridges over the then not yet regulated Danube and one of its side arms. These bridges were not on the site of the current bridge.

The last of the new railway bridges over the regulated Danube , the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahnbrücke was opened in 1877. It was built as a double-track bridge with parabolic shaped trusses and four stream openings. The pillars were built using caissons and are still in use today. The steel parts were supplied by the Archduke Albrecht 's Archduke Industrial Administration of Teschen.

Like almost all other Viennese Danube bridges - the only exception was the Reichsbrücke - the northern railway bridge was blown up by the German Wehrmacht during the battle for Vienna in early April 1945 .

In the post-war period, the northern railway trains ended at Vienna Floridsdorf station until 1959 . The northern railway bridge was open to traffic again in 1957, but the subsequent line to the Praterstern was not yet completed, so that the scheduled train traffic over the northern railway bridge could not begin until May 31, 1959. From that day on, it also took over the traffic of the Nordwestbahn, as the Nordwestbahnbrücke was now shut down and converted into a road bridge. With the opening of the high-speed railway in Vienna on January 16, 1962, the northern railway bridge became part of the main high-speed railway line between Meidling and Floridsdorf . The S-Bahn traffic has been heavily dense since then and now has a 3-minute interval during rush hour.

In the course of the construction of the Freudenau power plant downstream on the Danube, the 7,000-tonne northern railway bridge had to be lifted 170 centimeters in 1992 in order to maintain the passage height of eight meters for shipping. For this purpose, rail traffic had to be suspended for two weeks in August 1992.

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  The first northern railway bridge over the not yet regulated Danube with the opening train on January 6, 1838

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  North Railway Bridge over the Danube Island

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  Nordbahnbrücke with S-Bahn

Web links

Commons : Nordbahnbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The bridge elevation ( Memento from September 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• Railway in Brigittenau ( Memento from November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Trade, Industry, Transport and Agriculture. Bridge test. In:  Wiener Zeitung , October 3, 1877, p. 9 middle. (Online at ANNO ).