Pündericher slope viaduct
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 24 ″ E
| Pündericher slope viaduct | ||
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| Convicted | Moselle route | |
| Subjugated | (Slope viaduct) | |
| place | Pünderich | |
| construction | Masonry | |
| overall length | 786 m | |
| width | 7.9 m | |
| Number of openings | 92 | |
| Longest span | 7.2 m | |
| Pillar strength | 1.3 m | |
| height | 10 m | |
| building-costs | 460,000 marks | |
| start of building | 1877 | |
| completion | 1880 | |
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The 786 m long Pünderich slope viaduct on the Moselle route opposite Pünderich on the Moselle is the longest slope viaduct in Germany . The Prinzenkopf tunnel begins immediately at the northern end of the viaduct .
construction
The slope viaduct is about ten meters high and has 92 arches. Each of the arches has a span of 7.20 m, the pillars are 1.30 m thick. The bridge consists of quarry stones from a nearby quarry and bricks that were supplied by brickworks in Merl and St. Wendel . A total of 19,000 m 3 of masonry was built.
history
The surveying work in the area of the viaduct began in February 1872. In the years 1877 and 1878, the viaduct for the track on the Moselle side was built and put into operation on May 15, 1879 with the opening of the Lower Moselle Railway. The uphill extension planned from the start was built in 1879 and 1880. On October 7, 1880, a keystone festival was held to mark the completion of the bridge.
Towards the end of the Second World War , German troops blew up four arches of the viaduct as they retreated. The repair work began after the end of the war with the help of conscripted workers. The track on the Moselle side was open to traffic again on September 1, 1946, and when the Moselle line was restarted on April 24, 1947, the Pünderich viaduct was completely restored.
During construction work in 1952, a document was found that had been walled in at the keystone festival. This lists all departments and companies that participated in the construction and the document compares the construction costs at that time with those for food such as bread , meat and Moselle wine . A bottle of Moselle wine cost between 1 and 5 marks, depending on the quality.
In the early 1970s , when the Moselle route was electrified, the tracks on the viaduct were lowered, which required minor blasting work. This was necessary because the level of the bridge tracks had to be adjusted to that of the tracks in the adjoining Prinzenkopf tunnel, which were also lowered so that enough space could be created for the catenary in the tunnel.
As part of the celebrations for the 175th birthday of the German railways in 2010, the slope viaduct was illuminated from April 2nd to 5th and used by special trains on the Moselle route and the branch line to Traben-Trarbach .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.brueckenweb.de : Pünderich slope viaduct , accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ a b Pünderich an der Mosel : The Mosel (valley) railway , accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ a b Pündericher Slope Viaduct , accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ volksfreund.de : Pündericher slope viaduct lights up , accessed on June 17, 2012