Ruhr Bridge Kettwig
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 39 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 11 ″ E
| Ruhr Bridge Kettwig | ||
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Street and footpath | |
| Crossing of | Dysentery | |
| place | Eat , Kettwig | |
| construction | Solid steel girder bridge | |
| overall length | 175 m | |
| Longest span | 45.9 m | |
| start of building | Previous bridge: 1863 | |
| completion | Previous bridge: 1865, today's bridge: 1950 |
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| opening | June 28, 1950 | |
| closure | Previous bridge : blown up April 11, 1945 |
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| Above sea level | 43 m | |
The Ruhrbrücke Kettwig is a road bridge over the Ruhr in the Essen district of Kettwig .
history
A Kettwig Ruhr bridge was first mentioned in a document in 1282. In 1533 the bridge was damaged by floods on the Kettwig side. Severe damage from floods and ice has been recorded for the winter of 1568. The dethroned Archbishop Gebhard I von Waldburg from Cologne attempted to destroy the bridge in 1583, but his troops were forced to flee. In 1587 it was taken by the Spanish military leader Martin Schenk von Nideggen .
The river crossing was fought over in the Thirty Years War . In 1629 the Dutch occupied the Kettwig Ruhr Bridge. In 1633 it was the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which they also occupied with the help of Dutch soldiers. Finally, in 1635 , Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm recaptured the bridge after armed conflicts with Hesse and had it torn down, which resulted in more than two centuries of ferry service.
In 1847 the Kettwig local council certified the royal government that the city of Kettwig had a historical right to a bridge over the Ruhr. In 1861 the city council decided to build a new bridge over the Ruhr. The construction of this predecessor of today's bridge began in 1863 without the very highest permit and therefore without laying the foundation stone . When it was completed in 1865, Kettwig had a Ruhr bridge again after 230 years. In 1867, according to the court ruling, Kettwig had to pay 16,500 thalers in damages to the Hugenpoet family , as they had owned the ferry rights until then . The bridge now spanned the Ruhr, which had not yet been dammed up here, and was rebuilt in 1911. Until the incorporation of the southern district of Vor der Brücke on May 15, 1930, a bridge toll of one pfennig had to be paid for using the bridge at the ticket booth on the south bank; three pfennigs for wagons and teams. After the incorporation, the bridge fee ceased.
Finally, the southern part of the bridge was blown up by Germans on the night of April 11-12, 1945, at the end of World War II when US troops marched into Kettwig, in order to hinder the invading Americans.
Today's bridge
Between 1940 and 1950 the Kettwig reservoir was created with a lock and run-of-river power station . Today's bridge was built over the weir and was opened to road traffic on June 28, 1950.
The Ruhr bridge is constructed as a solid wall girder bridge made of steel and is supported by the weir of the Kettwig lake. The Ruhrverband had the bridge built by Friedrich Krupp AG . It was completed in 1950. It crosses the two-lane ring road, flanked on both sides by footpaths. Their field widths are 45.9; 9.65; 3 × 12; 9.5 and 8 meters.
literature
- Christoph Schmitz: The Ruhr bridges: from the source to the mouth; between then and now . Ardey, Münster (Westphalia) 2004, ISBN 3-87023-311-7 , pp. 431-437 .
Web links
- Ruhr Bridge Kettwig. In: Structurae - Ruhrbrücke Kettwig today
Individual evidence
- ↑ A walk through Kettwig's story ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ^ Information from the Essen History Initiatives Association, issue 24/2008.
