Rhine bridge Germersheim (railway)
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 8 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 6 ″ E
| Germersheim Rhine Bridge | ||
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| use | Railway bridge, 2-track | |
| Convicted | Bruhrainbahn | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Germersheim | |
| construction | Steel truss bridge | |
| overall length | 268 m + 22 m | |
| width | 11.7 m | |
| Longest span | 136 m | |
| Construction height | 11.5 m | |
| start of building | 1965 | |
| completion | 1967 | |
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The Germersheim Rhine Bridge is a double-track railway bridge that spans the Rhine near Germersheim . It lies on the Germersheim – Bruchsal railway line .
Bridge from 1877
In a state treaty in 1871, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Bavaria , to which the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine belonged, agreed to build a railway line from Bruchsal to Germersheim with a bridge over the Rhine. After lengthy discussions, the location of the Rhine crossing north of the Germersheim Fortress was determined in 1874 . Construction work began in 1875 and the building was officially commissioned on May 15, 1877.
The bridge was 302 m long and consisted of three arched steel bridges with an underlying carriageway across the Rhine. With a width of 7.6 m, the superstructures each had a length of 87.6 m and were designed for two tracks. Due to increased line loads, the bridge structure was reinforced from 1927 to 1930. On March 24, 1945 at 10:20 a.m., the bridge was destroyed by blowing up a pillar and an abutment .
1967 bridge
Since the Deutsche Bundesbahn did not consider the Rhine bridge to be operationally necessary, it was not rebuilt immediately after the Second World War. It was not until 1965 that the Deutsche Bundesbahn began to build a new Rhine crossing and opened it on October 23, 1967. It was financed by the Federal Ministry of Defense, the background being strategic interests of NATO . A three-span, postless strut truss bridge made of steel with the continuous girder as a structural system in the longitudinal direction was built by a consortium of the MAN plant in Gustavsburg and the company Aug. Klönne . The spans of the 268 m long structure are 66 m in the peripheral areas and 136 m in the central area. The framework with parallel belts and the roadway below has a node spacing of 11 m in the side fields and 10.46 m in the main field with the navigation opening. The system height of the truss is 10.0 m, the total height is 11.5 m, the main girder center distance is 9.5 m. The diagonals and upper chords of the main truss girders have 0.7 m wide box cross-sections with heights between 0.6 m and 0.76 m. There is a construction height of 1.45 m between the upper edge of the rail and the lower edge of the construction. The wooden sleepers are mounted directly on two continuous longitudinal beams. The truss bridge is located on the left bank of the Rhine together with a 22 m long foreland bridge made of prestressed concrete on a separating pillar. The longitudinally non-displaceable bearings are also arranged there, making this the rest point of the structure.
Due to the curvature of the track after the bridge, the track layers on the bridge are off-center by 15 cm.
When the strategic military interest in the bridge waned after 1989, the southern track was closed in 1994.
As part of the expansion of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , it was electrified - by the end of 2011 - together with the Graben-Neudorf-Germersheim section of the Bruhrainbahn .
See also
literature
- H.-J. Schröter: The railway bridge over the Rhine near Germersheim. In: Der Stahlbau 38th year 1969, pp. 22–24.
Web links
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The next bridge up the river: Rhine bridge Maxau |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Rudolf-von-Habsburg-Brücke (Germersheim) |