Seven Arch Bridge (Fürth)
The Siebenbogenbrücke is a railway bridge in Fürth , which runs the Nuremberg – Bamberg , Nuremberg – Würzburg and Rangau Railway over the Rednitz around 600 meters west of the main station .
Construction and data
On the 186.7 m long and 25.1 m wide arched bridge , five train tracks and a pedestrian walkway cross the Rednitzgrund at a height of around 10 m. Each of the seven arches has a span of 20.4 m. Seen from the south, the Rednitz flows through the second arch from the right (east side).
History of origin
Construction began on July 20, 1862. The building was built under the direction of the district engineer Reissinger and met with great interest among the population. On some days the rush was so great that the police had to push the onlookers back from the construction site. Six workers were injured than in the embankment of the railway embankment a scaffold collapsed and twelve workers and four loaded with sand trolley plunged into the depths. The keystone was set on September 11, 1863.
From 1865 the railway line to Würzburg was single-tracked over the bridge. In order to accommodate the line to Bamberg, the bridge was expanded in 1891/92 to accommodate four tracks. In 1891, up to 33 mainline trains and 22 local trains crossed the structure every day. Since the Rangaubahn also used the track from the direction of Würzburg, there were always almost accidents. After 60 mainline trains and 51 local trains had crossed the bridge in 1898, it was decided to give the Rangau Railway its own track. On the south side, a concrete bridge was built onto the bridge for the fifth track . The shape of the structure, which was built between July 1899 and February 1900, was adapted to the existing bridge. In 1925, the Fronmüllersteg was added on the south side to ensure a connection between the Westvorstadt and the city center even in the event of flooding in Rednitzgrund.
German troops blew up a pillar on April 17, 1945. In June 1945 the US Army built a makeshift bridge and repaired the seven-arch bridge within the next two years. In 1953 they crossed over 400 trains. Led to disabilities that the track distance was only 3.5 meters and heavy transport trains or gauge loads trains passing avoided had. During renovations between May 1969 and November 1970, the structure was widened by 2.4 meters and more space was gained by moving the catenary masts from the bridge into the Rednitz Valley. Together with the Fronmüllersteg, the bridge reached its current width of 25.1 m. As part of the renovation work, it was gutted and filled with concrete, the Fronmüller footbridge was renewed and the track spacing was increased to 4.0 m. The renovation cost a total of 3.2 million DM .
As part of the expansion of the S-Bahn to Forchheim , another bridge was built in 2010 on the north side of the seven-arch bridge, also with seven arches and two tracks in modern concrete construction.
literature
- Bernd Jesussek: Bridge City Fürth . Städtebilder, Fürth 1993, ISBN 3-927347-25-6 , p. 36, 38 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzet, Heinrich Habel: Monuments in Bavaria, Vol. 6/61, City of Fürth . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3874905718
- ↑ A brand new bridge based on the old model , Fürther Nachrichten of March 16, 2010, accessed on June 19, 2017.
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 16.7 " N , 10 ° 58 ′ 51.8" E