Schwarzbachtal Bridge (A 62)
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 5 ″ E
 Schwarzbachtal Bridge
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| use | Public road traffic ( motor vehicle ) | |
| Convicted | Federal motorway 62 | |
| Crossing of | Schwarzbach , Landesstrasse 477 and the Landau – Rohrbach railway line | |
| place | Thaleischweiler frogs | |
| Entertained by | Federal Republic of Germany | |
| overall length | 601.5 m | |
| height | 100 m | |
| Clear height | 100 m | |
| start of building | Late 1970s | |
| opening | Early 1990s | |
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| Above sea level | 400 m above sea level NHN | |
The Schwarzbachtalbrücke of the A 62 is a bridge structure in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Südwestpfalz .
Geographical location
The Schwarzbachtalbrücke lies on the boundary of the local communities Thaleischweiler-Fröschen in the south and Höheinöd in the north. About 6 km north of the town of Pirmasens , between the hamlet of Biebermühle in the east and the municipality of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen in the west, the bridge leads the federal motorway 62 (Pirmasens - Landstuhl - Kusel - Nonnweiler ) from southwest to northeast over the valley of the Schwarzbach , where parallel to the brook the routes of the state road 477 ( right of the brook course) and the railway line Landau-Rohrbach (left) run. The feeder for junction 14 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen flows from the L 477 just under 1 km south of the bridge .
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The Schwarzbachtal Bridge rests on around ten concrete pillars with a rectangular base. With a total length of 601.5 m, it is the longest bridge on the A 62. The lanes are about 400 m above sea level. Above sea level. The height of the bridge over the Schwarzbach, which is almost identical to the clear height, is around 100 m.
Like almost the entire 21 km long section of the A 62 from Pirmasens to junction 12 Bann, the bridge has only two lanes with one lane in each direction and without any structural center separation. This is why this section is signposted as a motor road and not as a motorway .
history
Construction of the Schwarzbachtal Bridge began in the late 1970s, but its actual use did not begin until the early 1990s. In September 1990, the bridge across Germany became famous for because of them and not yet officially opened A 62, the US Army as part of Operation Steel Box about 102,000 with stuffed poison gas grenades to Miesau Army Depot taken away, their prior storage in a military depot at Clausen in Palatinate Forest was not known to the public. The transport cost the USA a good 53 million dollars , the Federal Republic had to spend more than 45 million DM (about 22.5 million euros) for security measures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Heimatlexikon Thaleischweiler-Fröschen: The Schwarzbachtalbrücke (motorway bridge A 62). Retrieved September 10, 2010 .
- ^ Operation Lindwurm - special exhibition "Operation Lindwurm". DokuCenter Ramstein, accessed on September 10, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Operation Lindwurm - Operation Steel Box. (PDF) DokuCenter Ramstein, accessed on March 6, 2014 .
