Syratal Bridge
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 6 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 52 ″ E
Syratal Bridge | ||
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The Syratalbrücke seen from the southwest. | ||
Convicted | Plauen – Cheb railway line | |
Subjugated | Syrabach , Neupertstrasse | |
place | Plauen | |
construction | Arch bridge made of diabase and sandstone | |
overall length | 210 m | |
Number of openings | 11 | |
Clear width | 17, 14 or 10 m | |
height | 32.5 m | |
building-costs | 180,000 thalers | |
start of building | 1871 | |
completion | 1873 | |
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The Syratalbrücke is a railway bridge in Plauen .
The bridge spans the eponymous Syrabach in the Syratal , over which the Plauen – Cheb railway runs . The foundation stone for the 210-meter-long structure was laid on October 7, 1871. The bridge was built from hewn granite in the metric system, with the pillars largely made of diabase and the arches are made of sandstone.
The bridge has eleven arches. The clear width of the three middle arches (IV-VI) is 17 meters each. This is followed by two arches on both sides with a clear width of 14 meters. To the south there are three more arches and to the north another arch with a clear width of 10 meters each. The southernmost arch spans Neupertstrasse.
Literature and web links
- Gero Fehlhauer: The Vogtland and its arched bridges (= the series archive images. ). Sutton, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-256-6 , pp. 35-40.
- Commons : Syratalbrücke - collection of images, videos and audio files
- 360 ° view of the Syratal Bridge. Retrieved December 27, 2014 .
- The Syratalbrücke at brueckenweb.de. Retrieved December 27, 2014 .