Weinheim Viaduct
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 6 " N , 8 ° 4 ′ 57" E
 Weinheim Viaduct
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| use | Highway bridge | |
| Convicted | Federal motorway 63 | |
| Crossing of | Selz , L 406 | |
| place | Alzey | |
| Entertained by | LBM | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 1260 m | |
| width | ?? m | |
| Longest span | ??? m | |
| vehicles per day | 26,200 vehicles / day | |
| start of building | 19 ?? | |
| completion | 1981 | |
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The Weinheim Viaduct near the town of Alzey in Rhineland-Hesse is a bridge on the 63 federal motorway . With its 1260 meters it is one of the 24 longest road bridges in Germany and one of the longest valley bridges in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The girder of prestressed concrete was completed 1981st It lies between the junctions (9) Erbes-Büdesheim and (10) Freimersheim . It spans the Selztal between the town of Alzey (east) and its district of Weinheim in the west.
Due to the exposed location, light or unloaded trucks are very susceptible to strong winds and trailers can overturned. The bridge had to be closed during hurricane Kyrill on 18./19. January 2007 and a good eight years later also in mid-January and at the end of March 2015 due to hurricane gusts for safety's sake to the truck traffic. During hurricane Niklas , the speed was reduced to 40 km / h instead of the 100 km / h otherwise permitted. After the hurricane Niklas, it was considered whether the previous provisional speed limit signs should be replaced by fixed traffic signs in the future, and there should also be a warning in front of the bridge in case of strong winds. A request from local, state and federal politicians as well as the responsible motorway police Gau-Bickelheim for a windbreak on the three bridges around Alzey were rejected by the responsible ministries in Berlin and Mainz. The reason given was that the valley bridges at Dautenheim and Weinheim are not considered to be a wind-related accident accumulation point.
"Only when there is a significant accumulation of accidents as a result of the action of the wind, the responsible road construction administration in the state will check whether wind protection measures are necessary"
After further accidents caused by the Egon storm on January 13, 2017, another attempt was made to apply for wind protection on the bridges.
Traffic load
In the manual road traffic censuses of the Federal Highway Research Institute , which are carried out every five years, an "average daily traffic volume" (DTV) of 26,200 vehicles per day with a 13.0 percent share of heavy traffic was determined between the Erbes-Büdesheim and Freimersheim junctions. Buses, trucks> 3.5 t gross vehicle weight with and without trailers, articulated trucks) on all motor vehicles in 2010. Five years earlier in 2005 there were still 21,900 vehicles (12.4%).
See also
On the eastern edge of the city of Alzey there are two further viaducts on the federal motorway 61 : the Alzey viaduct with 539 m and the Dautenheim viaduct with 390 m. These can be reached via the Alzey motorway junction .
Web links
- Profile with photo on brueckenweb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bridges are also getting on in years ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 3 (PDF file)
- ↑ Storm whirls everything upside down: roads closed, party canceled, car damaged on rhein-zeitung.de from January 9, 2015
- ↑ Trailer with Styrofoam tips over - A 63 near Alzey closed due to rescue work / Tempo 40 on bridges ; Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) p. 19 of April 1, 2015
- ↑ Thomas Ehlke: A windy problem - storms on bridges around Alzey cause dangerous chaos from January 21, 2017; P. 23
