Schwedlerbrücke
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 56 ″ N , 8 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ E
| Schwedlerbrücke | ||
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| use | footbridge | |
| Convicted | Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station | |
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Osthafen Ostpark |
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| overall length | 245 m | |
| width | 3 m | |
| completion | 1910 | |
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The Schwedlerbrücke is a listed pedestrian bridge in Frankfurt am Main in its Ostend district . It was created in the course of the construction of the Frankfurt East Harbor in 1910. It was built by the Royal Prussian Railway . The bridge is named after the German civil engineer Johann Wilhelm Schwedler .
History and construction
With a length of 245 meters, the Schwedlerbrücke, constructed primarily of steel and red Main sandstone , spans the widest area of the Ostbahnhof . Like many other structures in the east port, the Schwedlerbrücke was built jointly by the Prussian State Railways and the City of Frankfurt.
The three meter wide bridge consists of two differently constructed sections, separated by a six meter wide group pillar. A girder bridge spans the higher-lying track bed of the railway line to Hanau in the north. The principle of straight brackets enables bridging with a relatively low structural strength. The longer, southern part of the bridge is formed by four flat arched arches between concrete pillars. In between, iron stairs once led to the loading streets between the tracks.
The Schwedlerbrücke has been a listed building under the Hessian Monument Protection Act since 2010 .
Location and transport links
The pedestrian bridge connects the Ostpark with the Osthafen. In the southeast, the bridge leads from the Osthafen through Schwedlerstrasse . It then crosses the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line in a northwest-southeast orientation . The north-western foot of the bridge is in the southern part of the Ostpark, the Hanauer Landstrasse runs at the south-eastern foot of the bridge in the Ostend district .
About one kilometer north of the Schwedlerbrücke is the Eissporthalle / Festplatz station , which is served by several local public transport lines - from the U7 tram and tram line 12 of the Frankfurt public transport company VgF and the bus route 103 from Offenbacher Verkehrs-Betriebe . To the south of the bridge, on Hanauer Landstrasse, is the Schwedlerstrasse stop for line 11 of the Frankfurt am Main tram , where the night bus lines n61, n62 and n63 also stop.
Blocking
The Schwedlerbrücke was closed by the city of Frankfurt in August 2011 due to its poor structural condition. An exact statement about the end of the block cannot be made so far. In February 2016, a closed competition for the repair and renovation of the bridge was decided. The first prize was awarded to a joint venture made up of the Frankfurt architecture firm Christoph Mäckler Architekten and the engineering firm Bollinger und Grohmann Ingenieure. According to the competition organizer, the Office for Road Construction and Development of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the work is expected to be completed in 2022.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Herrmann Wygoda: Schwedlerbrücke remains closed for the time being . Article from January 4, 2014 on the Frankfurter Neue Presse website , accessed on September 17, 2014
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011
- ↑ Falk map of Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach a. M., 64th edition, Falk-Verlag , Ostfildern 2011
- ^ Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): General route plan for Frankfurt am Main, 2012 edition
- ↑ Corina Silvia Socaciu: Frankfurt Schwedler Bridge - state worse than expected . Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau Online from March 7, 2014, accessed on September 17, 2014
- ↑ Denis Hubert: Special reviewers have to work at Schwedlerbrücke. Frankfurter Rundschau, June 9, 2017, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
- ↑ The redesigned Schwedlerbrücke will be available by 2017. Bornheimer Wochenblatt, February 24, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Eleven years between closure and reopening: The long wait for the Schwedlerbrücke | Frankfurter Neue Presse . ( fnp.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).