Rhena Viaduct
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 50 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 15 ″ E
| Rhena Viaduct | ||
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| Convicted | Uplandbahn | |
| Subjugated | Rhena tributary and country road | |
| place | Rhena , North Hesse | |
| construction | Arch bridge made of natural stone and poured concrete | |
| Number of openings | 4th | |
| completion | 1916 | |
| opening | 1916 | |
| closure | 1999-2003 | |
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| Above sea level | 480 m above sea level NHN | |
The Rhena Viaduct is a single-lane railway bridge of the Uplandbahn near Rhena , a district of Korbach in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg ( Germany ). It is an arch bridge made of natural stone and poured concrete with four bridge arches, three bridge piers and two abutments . After a temporary break from 1999 to 2003, it is still used today for rail traffic.
Geographical location
The viaduct , at kilometer 47.1 of the Uplandbahn leading from Korbach via Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt , spans a narrow brook valley over a small tributary of the Rhena from the north and a parallel country road about 1 km north of the old village center of Rhena.
history
The viaduct, like the one 2 kilometers away at Bömighausen , was built from 1915 to 1916 by the Royal Prussian State Railways through the Cassel Railway Directorate . After these two were completed, the Lelbach / Rhena - Eimelrod section was put into operation on April 1, 1916.
In November 1999, traffic from Korbach to Brilon Wald was temporarily suspended, among other things due to serious defects in the viaducts near Willingen , Usseln , Rhena and Bömighausen . The viaducts near Usseln and Willingen were renovated in 2002 and 2003 using a newly developed process. The pillars, the interior of which consisted of poured concrete of varying quality and strength, were provided with numerous holes 80 mm in diameter up to the foundations and the arches with holes 30 mm in diameter, and these holes were then filled with a cement suspension , which was after Hardening provided new strength. The outer facade was cleaned with water pressure of 2000 bar , loose rock was removed, and then a new outer shell was created with shotcrete . The superstructure of the viaducts was also completely renewed, with the sleepers from 1916 being replaced by Y-shaped steel sleepers and the rails from 1960. The smaller viaducts at Rhena and Bömighausen, which had also been in urgent need of renovation at least since the 1980s, were completely renovated in the same way in 2003. After this extensive renovation work, rail operations were resumed on the line in December 2003.
Footnotes
- ↑ The opening of the last two sections of the Uplandbahn from Eimelrod to Usseln (August 14, 1916) and from Usseln to Willingen (April 2, 1917) and thus the entire Wabern – Brilon Wald route took place on April 2, 1917 after the completion of the Usselner and of the Willinger Viaduct .
- ↑ Reopening of the Korbach - Willingen railway line , accessed on October 18, 2019