Zurzach – Rheinheim bridge over the Rhine
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 10 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-five / 270959
| Zurzach – Rheinheim bridge over the Rhine | ||
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | L 162 | |
| Crossing of | Rhine , km 93.91 | |
| place | Bad Zurzach , Rheinheim | |
| Entertained by | State of Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
| construction | Steel composite girder bridge |
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| overall length | 156.5 m | |
| width | 10 m | |
| Longest span | 59.36 m | |
| completion | 1907 | |
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The Rheinbrücke Zurzach-Rheinheim is a road bridge that spans the Upper Rhine between Bad Zurzach and Rheinheim and the border between Switzerland and Germany. The bridge is designed for two lanes and walkways on both sides. In the road network, it connects the German state road 161 on the right bank of the Rhine via a section of the L 162 through the village of Rheinheim with the Swiss main road 7 on the left bank of the Rhine .
A stone bridge over the Rhine already existed around 368 AD, when the Romans expanded the Tenedo base on the military road from Vindonissa to Juliomagus with the Kirchlibuck-Sidelen fort. There is also evidence of a wooden bridge around the year 1269. Before 1907, it was crossed by ferry for centuries . The landing stage on the Swiss side was in front of the Mandacher Schlösschen . The transition to the Zurzach trade fair was particularly important .
At the initiative of the factory owner Jakob Zuberbühler , a fixed Rhine crossing was built again at the beginning of the 20th century, which was inaugurated in 1907. Completion was planned for 1906, but as a result of a flood on May 21, 1906, the wooden assembly scaffolding, including the not yet fully assembled bridge superstructure, collapsed. The building cost around 200,000 Swiss francs.
The superstructure at that time consisted of two steel, parallel- chorded lattice girders , which had the continuous girder as a structural system in the longitudinal direction and spanned the Rhine with three openings. In the transverse direction, the superstructure was designed as a trough cross-section. The carriageway slab lay between the two trusses, which were 6.0 m high and had a center distance of 6.0 m. The superstructure had a mass of 340 t.
In 1977 the bridge was extensively repaired, with a span of 48.57 m in the two peripheral fields and 59.36 m in the central opening and a length of 156.5 m. The old superstructure was replaced by a steel composite cross-section with an overhead carriageway and around 10 m wide. A weatherproof steel with a total mass of 216 t was used. In addition, a sculpture of the patron saint, Saint Verena , was placed in the middle of the bridge on the downstream side .
A crossing for pedestrians and cyclists is located in an easterly direction along the structure of the Reckingen power plant .
literature
- Ernst Woywod: Modern bridges in Aargau . In: Swiss engineer and architect , 1987, p. 648.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Bad Zurzach ( Memento from April 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 711 kB)
- ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 47, 1906, p. 271
- ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 43/44, 1904, pp. 311–312
- ↑ Thomas P. Lang, Jean-Paul Lebet: Bridges made of weatherproof steel . In: TEC 21 , 2002, issue 24, pp. 23-29 ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 802 kB)
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