Peenebrücke Wolgast
The Peenebrücke Wolgast is a combined road and railway - Bascule Bridge over the river Peene in Wolgast . It connects the island of Usedom with the Wolgast Castle Island , which is connected to the Western Pomerania mainland via the Schlossgrabenbrücke and a separate railway bridge . The 111 federal road and the Züssow – Wolgast Hafen or Wolgast-Ahlbeck border / Świnoujście Centrum railway line cross the Peene Bridge . The number of vehicles in road traffic averages around 12,000 vehicles a day; Heavy-duty vehicles make up less than five percent of this.
Because of its distinctive painting, the bridge is also known as the “ Blue Wonder ”.
The State Office for Road Construction and Transport Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Stralsund Road Construction Office, was the client on behalf of the federal and state governments. Architect Oskar Lehmann was responsible for the architecture of the building. Eight well-known companies from the construction industry and steel construction were commissioned to carry out the construction in a joint venture, which is related to the construction method, on the one hand, of a concrete-technological type and, on the other, to the structural steel construction.
history
The first plans for the construction of a permanent bridge over the Peene river already existed in the 1920s. Because of the increasing car traffic to the seaside resorts on the island of Usedom, the outdated steam ferry was more and more overloaded. After all, in 1930 223,685 people, 16,702 motor vehicles, 3,505 motorcycles and 7,970 wagons were counted that took the ferry from the mainland to the island. The project was also intended to give Wolgast traders better access to the attractive markets of the seaside resorts and to help the city's companies, especially the cast steelworks, hit by the global economic crisis, back on their feet. The total cost of building the bridge was then estimated at 1,460,000 Reichsmarks. After a long dispute about financing, construction could finally begin in the summer of 1933, which was completed within a year despite the sometimes adverse weather conditions. The bridge was opened on June 24, 1934.
At the end of April 1945 the Peene Bridge was blown up by the withdrawing Wehrmacht . The hinged part remained undamaged in the open position in order to keep an unobstructed escape route into the Baltic Sea open for the German naval units still operating in the Stettiner Haff between the rubble lying in the water.
It took five years before the fixed parts of the bridge that had fallen into the Peene River were recovered and, together with the foundations, restored to such an extent that the bridge could be used again. Mayor Backhaus was able to open them to traffic on March 27, 1950. The building was now called the Bridge of Friendship and had cost 1.94 million marks (GDR). It served as the island's most important umbilical cord for around 40 years. Due to the continued strong increase in car traffic, however, their condition was so bad in the early 1990s that speed and load limits had to be introduced.
The construction of the new bridge began right next to the old bridge on September 21, 1994. On December 19, 1996, the completed structure was opened to traffic; the old bridge immediately next to it was then torn down. One element of the old hinged part is now on the harbor forecourt and has been converted into an information terminal there. In contrast to its predecessor, the new bridge received an additional railway track that is used by the Usedomer Bäderbahn . The access to the bridge on the island side had to be redesigned for the railway connection. In 2000, for the first time since the Karniner Bridge was destroyed in 1945, a railway was able to cross the Peene River again.
technology
The length of the structure is 255.90 meters between the bridge's abutments, with the length of the individual bridge fields being 52.00 m, 55.15 m, 46.50 m, 49.95 m and 52.30 m. The bridge piers, also with cantilevered pulpits, have different pillar widths; three of the pillars are 5 m wide and the fourth pillar for the bridge house and bascule bridge has a width of 8.50 meters. The roadway superstructures are designed as trapezoidal steel box profiles. The bridge area is calculated at 4,888 m². 15,109 m³ of concrete and 2,289 t of steel were used. The roadway is 5.48 m above sea level.
According to the main function, the structure is to be defined as a horizontal beam bascule bridge. The flap of the new bridge is 19.18 m wide and 42 m long. The elevated levers with the counterweights are used for the functionality and are visible from afar due to their height and dimensions. The passage opening is 30.75 m wide for shipping when the hatch is open.
building-costs
The costs for the entire construction project amounted to 96.5 million D-Marks.
opening hours
The bascule bridge is opened a maximum of five to six times a day for a maximum of 15 minutes each time, depending on the season.
More bridges over the Peene river
- Currently the only other bridge to the island of Usedom is the Zecheriner Bridge , also a bascule bridge on the federal highway 110 east of Anklam .
- Another road bridge in Wolgast was included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 , which is to be implemented as a 42 m high bridge as the second construction phase in the course of a 7.6 km long bypass . This bridge is intended to be an extradosed bridge and, thanks to its height, allow shipping traffic without the need to open the bridge. The current plan approval procedure is to be accelerated by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania so that construction can start in 2020. The planning process was initially interrupted for nature conservation reasons. Since migratory birds can hardly see the round ropes of the bridge structure, the plan was changed to flat support ropes. The revised planning documents for the new bridge were published in October 2018. A construction period of four to five years is calculated, with a cost calculation of 94 million euros.
- The Karnin railway bridge has not yet been rebuilt after being blown up at the end of World War II.
literature
- Federal Ministry of Transport and Economics of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Peenebrücke Wolgast - replacement new building. Schuboth-Druck Malchow, December 1996
Web links
- This is what the new Wolgast bridge should look like. In: Nordkurier . October 24, 2013.
- Opening times of the bridge on the page "Announcement for seafarers (T) 24/19" of the waterways and shipping office Stralsund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolgast ... ostsee-zeitung.de, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolgast ... ostsee-zeitung.de, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolgast ... ostsee-zeitung.de, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Opening times of the bridge on the "Announcement for Seafarers (T) 24/19" page of the Stralsund Waterways and Shipping Office , accessed May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Green light for the Wolgast bypass. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . 17th March 2016.
- ^ Wolgast: bypass now in the federal traffic route plan. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . 3rd December 2016.
- ↑ Peenebrücke Wolgast. In: usedomrundreise.de. April 8, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 17 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 12 ″ E