Rhine bridge Koblenz – Waldshut
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '31 " N , 8 ° 13' 58" E ; CH1903: 659715 / 273 406
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Rhine , km 102.07 | |
| place | Waldshut , Koblenz AG | |
| construction | Steel girder bridge | |
| overall length | 128.1 m | |
| width | 10.4 m | |
| Longest span | 54.9 m | |
| start of building | 1931 | |
| completion | 1932 | |
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The Rhine Bridge Koblenz – Waldshut is a road bridge that spans the Upper Rhine between Waldshut and Koblenz and the border between Germany and Switzerland .
The structure is around 100 m below the famous railway bridge from 1859 and was built between 1931 and 1932. The first plans for a permanent bridge to replace a ferry connection had already been made before the First World War . The road bridge is designed for two lanes and two-sided footpaths. In the road network, it links the German federal highway 34 on the right bank of the Rhine with the Swiss main road 7 on the left bank of the Rhine . For shipping there is a passage in the middle opening with a clearance height of 6.0 m at the highest navigable water level. The German border clearance and the Swiss exit clearance of goods traffic has taken place in a joint border clearance office on German territory since 1978. In 1981 the bridge was extensively repaired for around 1.9 million Swiss francs.
construction
The steel bridge has a length of 128.1 m. It has the continuous beam as a building system in the longitudinal direction . The spans for the three-field overpass are 54.9 m in the middle field and 36.6 m in the two peripheral fields.
In the transverse direction, the 10.4 m wide superstructure is designed as a trough cross-section. Between the two steel main girders, which have a variable construction height and a center distance of 7.0 m, is the carriageway slab 1.3 m below the upper edge of the longitudinal girders. Outside the main girders, there is a 1.7 m wide cantilever structure for the walkways on both sides.
The 18 cm thick reinforced concrete deck is supported by secondary longitudinal girders 1.7 to 2.0 m apart, which have a span of 4.57 m and are supported on cross girders. During the repairs in 1981, among other things, the deck slab was replaced and anchored to the steel girders .
See also
literature
- Ernst Woywod, Miodrag Milosavljevic, Branislav Lazic: Monitoring and maintenance of engineering structures . In: Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt , Vol. 100 (1982), Issue 22, pp. 474–475, ISSN 0251-0960 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic of Germany on the establishment of adjacent border clearance points at the Koblenz / Waldshut-Rheinbrücke border crossing from 1978 (PDF; 478 kB)
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The next bridge upstream: the Waldshut – Koblenz railway bridge |
Bridges over the Rhine |
The next bridge downstream: Albbruck-Dogern power station |