Schwanheimer Bridge

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 26 ″  E

Schwanheimer Bridge
use	Road bridge
Convicted	Bundesstrasse 40
Crossing of	Main
place	Nied , Schwanheim
construction	Steel girder bridge
overall length	489 m
width	29 m
Headroom	7.35 m
construction time	1962/63
location

The Schwanheimer Brücke is a road bridge in Frankfurt am Main , which crosses the Main at Main km 26,800. It connects the districts of Nied and Schwanheim .

The B 40 will be used as a motor road between Frankfurt-Griesheim and Kelsterbach over the bridge . It is part of the Höchst southern bypass . The B 40 splits at the Schwanheimer junction ( Kelsterbacher junction ), a junction leads over the Kelsterbacher Querspange to the A 3 and the airport . The main route of the B 40 continues north over the Sindlinger Mainbrücke to the Krifteler Dreieck .

The route of bus line 51 (Niederrad - Höchst) runs over the Schwanheimer bridge.

The Schwanheimer Bridge is 489 m long and 29 m wide; In each direction of travel, it comprises two lanes separated by a paved median, a sidewalk and a cycle path. The connection of the Schwanheimer Uferstraße on the southern and the Nieder Kirchweg on the northern bank of the Main is made by two ramps each, which are led in wide loops.

The first Schwanheimer bridge between Schwanheim and Griesheim was built between 1905 and 1907, of which only the bridge house remains today. It was blown up on March 25, 1945 by Wehrmacht engineers to stop the advance of American troops . Between 1947 and 1963 a temporary bridge connected the Griesheimer and Schwanheimer Ufer. Today's Schwanheimer Bridge was built 600 m downstream of the temporary bridge in 1961/62 and opened to traffic in September 1963.

literature

• Wolfram Gorr: Frankfurt bridges. Locks, ferries, tunnels and bridges of the Main. Frankfurt am Main 1982: Frankfurter Societät. ISBN 3-7973-0393-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 37 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
2. ↑ The bridge house of the old Schwanheimer Bridge on frankfurter-bilderbogen.de
3. ^ Blasting the bridge completely pointless , FR Online from May 27, 2015, accessed on December 30, 2019

Web links

Commons : Schwanheimer Brücke  - Collection of images

• Aerial photo of the construction work and bridge data ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Schwanheimer Bridge. In: Structurae
• Old Schwanheimer Bridge. In: Structurae