Pont d'Asnières
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 15 ″ N , 2 ° 17 ′ 20 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | His | |
| place | Asnières-sur-Seine | |
| construction | Steel arch bridge | |
| Number of openings | four | |
| completion | ≈ 1908 | |
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The Pont d'Asnières is a road bridge over the Seine between the towns of Asnières-sur-Seine and Clichy in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the north- west of Paris .
location
The bridge, which is almost 100 m below the Asnières railway bridge, crosses the Seine and the four-lane Quai du Docteur Dervaux on the left bank with a separate structure. On the other bank, it ends in a roundabout formed by the Quai Michelet and Quai de Clichy and the Route d'Asnières. The next bridge downstream is the Pont de Clichy after about a kilometer .
description
The Pont d'Asnières, built between 1906 and 1908, has four lanes and a walkway on each side. The arched bridge between the abutments, 181 m long and 16 m wide, crosses the Seine with four bridge fields with pillar spacing of 44 + 48.5 + 48.5 + 40 m. Its two-hinged arches between the pillars that extend upwards are each formed by eight riveted , curved steel girders that are stiffened by diagonal and transverse connections. The carriageway slab is elevated on the girders, the supports are clad on the outside with architecturally designed round arches, between which brackets emphasized by appropriate profiling support the cantilevered walkway.
history
In 1825, on the basis of a long-term concession, the entrepreneur Rozier des Bordes built the first bridge with stone pillars and seven arches made of timber framework according to plans by Henri Navier on the site of an earlier ferry . The wooden structure was later replaced by a cast iron arch construction, which was destroyed in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 . As a temporary measure, a ship bridge was built next to it .
After 1870, it was replaced by a bridge with seven wrought - iron truss arches with a raised roadway between stone pillars that reached down to the roadway. The arches each consisted of five parallel iron girders.
This road bridge from Asnières was depicted by Vincent van Gogh as both the main object and the background to the railway bridge.
The Pont d'Asnières was demolished in 1906 and replaced by the current four-arch bridge.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The similar looking Pont d'Argenteuil only has profiled supports on the arches, but no round arch cladding and no protruding walkways.
- ^ Ordonnance du roi of December 22, 1924, mentioned in the Ordonnance portant autorisation de la société anonyme des ponts d'Asnières et d'Argenteuil, et approbation de ses statutes of October 31, 1832. In: Th. Ravinet: Code des ponts et chaussées et des mines. Volume 5, Carilian-Gœury, Paris 1836, p. 333 ( digitized on Google Books)
- ^ AR Polonceau: Notice sur le nouveau système de ponts en fonte suivi dans la construction du pont du Carrousel. Carillian-Gœury et V e Dalmont, Paris 1839. Footnote on p. 12. ( digitized extract from Google Books)
- ↑ Prony: Notice Biographique sur M. Navier ... In: Annales des ponts et chaussées, 1 re Série, 1837, 1 er Semestre, S. ( digitized on google books)
- ↑ Historical photography from Les Ruines de Paris et de ses Environs 1870-1871
- ↑ Drawing of the ship bridge in front of the destroyed wooden bridge. Reproduced in: Georges Ribeill: Vie et mort des ouvrages d'art. L'exemple des ponts de chemins de fer, p. 2 (PDF, 5 MB)
- ↑ historical picture postcard with a similar view; from the inventory of Notrefamille.com
- ↑ historical picture postcard showing the demolition of the bridge; from the inventory of Notrefamille.com
