Hamburg pillar railway

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The pillar railway was a viaduct on the Grasbrook between the Oberhafenbrücke and the Norderelbe in what is now Hamburg's HafenCity .

Description and course

The pillar railway was part of the Hanover – Hamburg railway line on Grasbrook. The viaduct, together with two crossing structures, was 1.1 kilometers long, making it the largest stone viaduct in Hamburg. It consisted of 126 brick vaults with a clear width of five meters each. Since the structure ran through the tracks of the main freight station , it had a passage for freight trains in the eastern and western parts . Raised long-distance railway tracks on the section between the Norderelbbrücken and Hamburg Central Station led across the viaduct .

history

The pillar railway was built from 1902 to 1904. From 1908 there were two stops for suburban traffic on the pillar railway: Elbe bridges near the Norderelbbrücke (opened on July 1, 1908) and Oberhafen south of the Oberhafenbrücke (opened on May 1, 1908). Both were given up around 1940. Around 1928 the structure was reinforced. New masonry was placed in front of the pillars during ongoing operations. Two stone strong new arches were thus stretched under the existing ones. The new vault was erected a short distance from the existing walls and one arch was relieved by setting up temporary bridges. This was necessary because the passing trains would otherwise have made it difficult for the mortar to set. During this construction work the vaults were reinsulated.

Later, some of the vaults of the viaduct were stabilized with concrete and the structure was provided with steel girders and reinforced concrete. In 1964 the section was electrified. The old parapets were demolished as part of the construction work. The masts of the overhead line were placed on the attached precast concrete girders.

From 2007 to 2009 the pillar track in need of renovation was torn down and replaced by a new earthworks framed with steel sheet piling with a concrete frame structure for crossing rail traffic. Two tracks lead over the structure, which is up to 7.60 meters high.

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The new structure erected in place of the pier (2013)

Web links

Commons : Pfeilerbahn (Hamburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg . Architecture - technology - history up to 1945. In: Hartmut Frank, Ullrich Schwarz, Hamburg Chamber of Engineers-Bau, Museum of Work (ed.): Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive . 1st edition. tape 25 . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 . , Pages 67-68
  2. ↑ In the course book 1939 [1] trains still stop at Elbbrücken, Oberhafen is no longer listed.
  3. ↑ Construction site of the Pfeilerbahn: The end of the handicaps is in sight of the Hamburger Abendblatt online on February 23, 2009. Accessed on November 20, 2014