Gernsheim bridge over the Rhine

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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 20 ″  E

Gernsheim bridge over the Rhine
Gernsheim bridge over the Rhine
1945 destroyed Rhine bridge near Gernsheim in 2007
use Road bridge
Subjugated Rhine
place Gernsheim - Eich (Rheinhessen) / Hamm am Rhein
construction Girder bridge
start of building 1939
completion 1940
Status destroyed
closure March 1945
location
Rhine bridge Gernsheim (Hesse)
Gernsheim bridge over the Rhine
Above sea level 85  m above sea level NHN

The former Rhine bridge Gernsheim at river kilometer 461.5 was built in 1939 and blown up by the Wehrmacht before March 20, 1945 to stop the approaching Allies . Until the bridge was completed in 1940, there was a ferry connection between Gernsheim and Eich or Hamm am Rhein . The remains are in the immediate vicinity of the port and the Gernsheim Rhine ferry .

Despite several attempts, the bridge was not rebuilt after the Second World War . A large part of the steel girders of the former bridge structure were salvaged after the destruction and used as emergency roof beams for the Worms Cathedral , whose vaults were exposed to the weather without a roof due to the war. This "steel beam" exists to the present day and is considered a curiosity.

The water police have moved into their quarters on the bunker of the bridge protection. The bunker is still part of the police station today.

The demolition of the ramp on the east side began on August 26, 2015, after the west side had already been removed in 2006. Only the pillar, which is directly connected to the water police building, will remain. Since then, only the foundations of the pillars have protruded from the Rhine itself.

Remains of the Rhine bridge after the demolition (status 2020)

literature

  • Albert Geipert: 1933–1945 - but the Rhine continued to flow, Forum-Verlag Riedstadt 2003, ISBN 3-9807543-9-1
  • 60 years of the end of the war in southern Hesse; Weekend Magazine, Saturday March 19, 2005; Page M2

Web links

Commons : Rheinbrücke Gernsheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Forster: Gernsheim - historical development. Archived from the original on December 5, 2011 ; Retrieved December 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Good neighbors even without bridges ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ red: Greens are calling for alternatives to the Rhine Bridge. In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de. Allgemeine Zeitung, May 31, 2007, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved September 27, 2007 (newspaper article).
  4. ↑ Discussion on Geschichtsspuren.de
  5. ↑ Explanations of the cathedral guide with a guided tour
  6. ^ Echo Online, August 26, 2015
The next bridge upstream:
Rheinbrücke Worms 		Bridges over the Rhine The next bridge downstream:
Weisenau Bridge