Schaper-Krupp-Reichsbahn

SKR bridge: Kräutelstein bridge near Passau

Schaper-Krupp-Reichsbahn-Brücke (SKR) is a temporary or emergency bridge system that can be set up quickly to replace destroyed railway bridges .

history

Such makeshift bridges have been developed since the middle of the 19th century - mainly for military purposes. During the Second World War , the engineer Gottwalt Schaper designed such a standardized truss bridge together with Friedrich Krupp AG , which was named after him and Friedrich Krupp AG as the Schaper-Krupp-Reichsbahn-Brücke - mostly just with the abbreviation "SKR" - initially during the war and was then used as a makeshift for numerous bridges destroyed in the war.

Between 1945 and 1950, 39 bridges with a total length of 5200 meters were built using the system. The last SKR bridge was laid over the Teltow Canal in Berlin in 1991.

Comparable systems

Similar systems were (usually truss bridges ):

• in Germany: Roth Waagner bridge device (RW),
• in France
  • a system developed by Gustave Eiffel ,
  • Wendling-Seibert and
  • Bonnet cutter (solid wall beam),
• in the UK : Bailey Bridge .

literature

• Ulrich Boeyng: The Baden Rhine bridges - the end of the Second World War 75 years ago . Part 1: The destruction of the Rhine bridges between Neienburg and Wintersdorf , In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg 2020/2, pp. 87-94.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Boeyng, p. 88
2. ^ Rolf H. Pfeifer, Tristan M. Mölter: Handbuch Eisenbahnbrücken . DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-7771-0378-5 , p. 302.