Saar Bridge Mettlach
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 34 ″ N , 6 ° 35 ′ 18 ″ E
| Saar Bridge Mettlach | ||
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| use | Street / pedestrian | |
| Convicted | L176 (Von-Boch-Liebig-Strasse) | |
| Subjugated | Saar | |
| place | Mettlach | |
| Entertained by | State agency for road construction | |
| Building number | 1 | |
| construction | Suspension bridge | |
| overall length | 108 m | |
| height | 15.7 m | |
| Load capacity | 30 t | |
| start of building | 1950 | |
| completion | 1951 | |
| opening | December 24, 1951 | |
| construction time | 1 year | |
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The Saar Bridge Mettlach is a suspension bridge over the Saar in the Saarland municipality of Mettlach . It is the only steel suspension bridge in the Saarland and has been a listed building since 2003.
history
As early as the 18th century, there was an arch bridge on the site of today's bridge . A steel girder bridge was erected on its foundations in 1936. After this bridge was destroyed in the Second World War, the steel suspension bridge was built in 1951/1952 to connect the town center with the district of Keuchingen and to connect to the North West Saarland via the L176. In order to make the Saar navigable in the future, the new bridge had to do without a support. Raised bridge ramps were created and the existing support pillar in the middle of the river was demolished. The steel structure was manufactured in 1951 by Stahlbau Seibert and set up in 1952 by Jager KG.
The bridge was extensively renovated in 1988/1989 and 2012 to 2013.
architecture
The bridge has an asphalt concrete carriageway resting on a steel structure and two 1.75 m wide pedestrian paths to the side of the boom. The suspension ropes consist of seven closed individual cables in the shape of a hexagon . These are stored on the pylons in cable saddles. The eight-strand restraint cables then end in anchor blocks, some of which are above ground, with quartzite facing. Since the renovation in the 1980s, the bridge on the Mettlach abutment has had shock absorbers . The engineering office Eiffel Deutschland Stahltechnologie GmbH, which was responsible for the structural renovation and repair in the 2010s, was awarded the Ulrich Finsterwalder Engineering Prize 2015 .
Web links
- The Mettlach suspension bridge , Saar Monuments Office (PDF; 185 kB)
- The Mettlacher Bridge and its history , Wochenspiegel online
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of the Merzig-Wadern district, p. 27
- ↑ Bastian Müller: Architecture of the Post-War Period in Saarland Preservation of Monuments in Saarland Volume 4, Landesdenkmalamt, Ministry for Environment, Energy and Transport, Saarbrücken, 2011, p. 172f
- ^ Saarbrücke Mettlach, renovation and repair . In: Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn (ed.): Ulrich Finsterwalder Ingenieurpreis 2015 . Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2015, p. 30-31 .