Roter Graben valley bridge
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 46 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 47" E
| Roter Graben valley bridge | ||
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| Convicted | High-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main | |
| place | Wallrabenstein | |
| overall length | 132 | |
| Number of openings | 3 | |
| Arrow height | to 15.5 | |
| start of building | circa 1997 | |
| completion | around 1998 | |
| opening | 2002 (passenger train operation) | |
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The Roter-Graben-Talbrücke is a 132 m long railway bridge on the high-speed line Cologne – Rhein / Main . It crosses the biotope Red digging in the area of the district Wallrabenstein the Hessian community Hünstetten and therefore bears his name.
The bridge takes on two tracks on slab track , which can be driven on as planned at 300 km / h.
Location and course
The bridge is located at route kilometer 128 of the new line, about 300 meters west of the federal highway 3 , east of Wallrabenstein.
The route describes a right curve in a southerly direction.
construction
The three-span bridge has a length of 132 m. The greatest pillar height is 15.5 m. The structure carries a two meter high noise barrier.
history
planning
The crossing of the Roter Graben biotope by a bridge resulted from the spatial planning procedure that was completed in November 1994 .
At the end of 1995, the planned length of the structure was 132 m. The regional planning procedure was completed by this time.
construction
The building was erected using falsework .
At the end of 1997 the foundations of the abutments were concreted on one side and the first pillar was erected. The pillars and abutments were completed in mid-1998. The bridge was to be the first bridge structure on the new line to be completed.
The bridge was completed as the first of four large bridges in section C of the new line.
Installation
Commercial commissioning took place in mid-2002.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Deutsche Bahn AG, network division, NBS Cologne – Rhein / Main, project management (publisher): New Cologne – Rhein / Main line: Hesse area, planning section PA 32, Wallrabenstein - Wörsdorf - Idstein - Niedernhausen . Folded brochure, six A4 pages, Frankfurt am Main, 1995.
- ↑ a b DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhein / Main, project management (publisher): New Cologne – Rhein / Main line: construction section middle, Lot C: Huenelden – Eddersheim / Nordenstadt , brochure (16 pages), Frankfurt am Main, September 1998, p. 2, 5, 12.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, network division, project management for the Cologne – Rhein / Main line (publisher): route map for the new Cologne-Rhein / Main line . Map from November 1995, Frankfurt 1995.
- ↑ Without author: The project for the new Cologne – Rhine / Main line . In: Eisenbahn JOURNAL: Tempo 300 - The new Cologne – Frankfurt line . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , pp. 34–63.
- ↑ Notification of construction progress on the Cologne - Rhein / Main line . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 12/1997, p. 551
- ↑ A concept takes shape . In: On the subject , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , issue July 1998, pp. 4-7.
- ↑ According to plan on the longest construction site in Germany . In: DBProjekt Köln – Rhein / Main (Ed.): On the subject , Issue 4/1999, Frankfurt am Main, August 1999, pp. 4–7.