Puente Carretero
Coordinates: 27 ° 47 ′ 39 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 50 ″ W.
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| Official name | Puente carretero Hipólito Irigoyen | |
| Crossing of | Río Dulce | |
| place | Santiago del Estero - La Banda | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 856 m | |
| Number of openings | 12 | |
| Longest span | 70 m | |
| start of building | 1924 | |
| completion | 1926 | |
| opening | February 27, 1927 | |
| planner | Pedro Mediondo, GHH | |
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The Puente Carretero , officially Puente carretero Hipólito Irigoyen , often simply called Puente Viejo ( Old Bridge ) by the inhabitants, often referred to in German-language literature as the bridge over the Rio Dulce , bridges the Río Dulce between the towns of Santiago del Estero and La Banda in the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero .
It is named after the two-time Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen , whose first presidency lasted from 1916 to 1922 and thus included in particular the period of the First World War .
description
The 856 m long Puente Carretero is a former combined rail and road bridge that crosses the Rio Dulce in the north of the city with a long row of 12 identical steel trusses.
The 70 m long and 11 m wide riveted lattice girders have straight lower and curved upper chords. Their total weight is around 6000 tons.
They were originally divided into a 6.7 m wide area for the tracks and 3 m for the road. In the 1950s, 1.5 m wide walkways were installed outside. Since Santiago del Estero no longer has a railway connection, the tracks were removed in 2008 and 2009, the bridge renovated and painted bright red. It is now a two-lane road bridge with very narrow hard shoulder and guardrails to protect the steel structure.
The bridge has been a listed building since 2001 .
history
In 1923 the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) plant in Sterkrade received the order to deliver the bridge, which was carried out in 1924 and 1925. It was completed in 1926 and opened on February 27, 1927.
While Argentine media treat it as a myth, it is reported on the Santiago del Estero website as a fact that the bridge was supplied as compensation for the sinking of the schooner Monte Protegido and the steamer Toro by German submarines during World War I.
The German ambassador Karl von Luxburg had informed the Argentine foreign minister on February 2, 1917 that his government had declared unrestricted submarine warfare and that this was also directed against ships under the flag of neutral nations that were within one of the German Reich imposed blockade zone.
On April 4, 1917, the Monte Protegido was sunk by a German submarine. The government sent word that it regretted the incident and promised to pay damages. In June 1917 a German submarine sank the Argentine Toro . The Argentine government under President Yrigoyen protested, the German government regretted it and promised compensation.
Web links
- Augusto Carlos de Vasconcelos, Gilson L. Marchesini, Júlio Timerman: Bridge Engineering in Brazil: Galeao Bridge . In: Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan (Eds.): Handbook of International Bridge Engineering . CRC Press, Boca Raton 2014, ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3 , pp. 154 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Stein: 100 years of GHH bridge construction . Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen, Sterkrade plant, Oberhausen 1951, p. 172 .
- ↑ El puente Carretero, 89 años de historia y mística on nuevodiarioweb
- ↑ Nuestra Ciudad en el último siglo on santiagociudad.gov
- ↑ Bernd Wulffen: German traces in Argentina: two centuries of changeful relationships . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-573-7 , p. 111, 112 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ El hundimiento de la goleta Monte Protegido (April 1917) in Historia General de las Relaciones Exteriores de le República Argentina
- ↑ El hundimiento del vapor Toro (junio de 1917) in: Historia General de las Relaciones Exteriores de le República Argentina