Rhume Bridge (1851)
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 59 ″ E
| Rhume Bridge | ||
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| Convicted | Hanover Southern Railway | |
| Subjugated | Rhume | |
| place | Northeim | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 91 m | |
| width | 8.75 m | |
| Number of openings | 6th | |
| Pillar spacing | 13.80 m | |
| Clear width | 11.68 m | |
| Arrow height | 1.95 m | |
| start of building | 1851 | |
| opening | 1854 | |
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The Rhumebrücke is a 91 m long railway bridge northwest of Northeim in southern Lower Saxony . On the bridge, the Hannöversche Südbahn crosses the eponymous Rhume at kilometer 87.192 .
From 1982, another nearby railway bridge over the Rhume was built for the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , which is also called the Rhumebrücke .
history
The bridge was built from the spring of 1851 as part of the Hanover Southern Railway and was put into operation with the Alfeld - Göttingen section on July 31, 1854. It was built as an arch bridge, pillars and abutments were founded on oak piles, made of quarry stone and clad with natural stone blocks. The bridge arches were made of natural stone blocks. The bridge is protected as a monument .
Extensive renovation work was carried out in 1935 to seal the bridge vaults.
On April 9, 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War , the first arch of the bridge was blown up, making the bridge impassable. In May 1945, the gap was closed by American pioneers with an auxiliary construction made of steel girders. However, in the absence of any protection for the remaining vaults, the structure collapsed when a heavy freight train first entered it. Arches 2 and 3 of the bridge also collapsed. Then the third bridge pillar was secured with a concrete block and a temporary bridge made of steel girders was placed over the three bridge openings. In August 1946 the makeshift construction was reinforced.
In 1948 the destroyed bridge arches and bridge piers were restored. First of all, half of the bridge was rebuilt under the Salzderhelden - Northeim track. The use of concrete was originally intended for this purpose, but this could not be carried out due to a lack of building materials. Instead, concrete blocks from an abandoned construction site on the Reichsautobahn Hanover - Göttingen (later Federal Motorway 7 ) near Hollenstedt were used, which were clad with reworked natural stones from the destroyed bridge arches. The initially stagnant construction work could be accelerated after the currency reform . As a result, the construction of the second half of the bridge under the Northeim - Salzderhelden directional track made of reinforced concrete was possible. During the construction work, operations took place on the other track, and a cover point was set up north of the bridge . The bridge was fully reopened on December 3, 1948. The work was completed in January 1949.
When the line was electrified in 1963, overhead line masts were installed on a pillar .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Lehmann: Static calculation for the railway bridge over the Rhume near Northeim in km 87.192 on the Kreiensen-Göttingen line . Northeim, 1948.
- ^ A b Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Reichsbahndirektion Kassel (ed.): Strength calculation for the bridge in km 87.192 on the Elze - Göttingen line , 1935.
- ↑ a b Uwe Gierz: trains in and around Northeim - Local traffic history in Südniedersachsen (= railways and museums - monographs DGEG # 43..). DGEG, Werl 1997, ISBN 3-921700-71-X .
- ↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, general agency Göttingen of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (ed.): 125 years of the Alfeld – Göttingen railway line , Göttingen 1979, p. 23.
- ↑ Specifications for the sealing of the arched Rhumebrücke in km 87.192 at Northeim station , 1935.
- ↑ a b Bahnmeisterei Salzderhelden (Ed.): Building description for the restoration of the Rhumebrücke near Northeim (Han) in km 87.192 on the Hannover - Kassel line . Salzderhelden, February 1, 1949.