Beatus Rhenanus Bridge

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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 7 ″  E

Beatus-Rhenanus-Bridge
Pont Beatus-Rhenanus
Beatus-Rhenanus-Bridge Pont Beatus-Rhenanus
The Beatus Rhenanus Bridge in March 2019
Convicted tram
Subjugated Rhine , km 293
place Kehl , Strasbourg
construction Arch bridge
start of building 2014
completion 2017
location
Beatus Rhenanus Bridge (Baden-Württemberg)
Beatus Rhenanus Bridge

The Beatus Rhenanus Bridge or Kehl Tram Bridge is a bridge for trams, pedestrians and cyclists that spans the Rhine between Kehl and Strasbourg . A line of the Strasbourg tram to Kehl has been running on it since April 2017 .

The architect is Marc Barani .

Emergence

A part of the bridge

On December 20, 2012, a Franco-German jury decided in favor of the design by the French Bouygues Group in cooperation with the German company Früh Ingenieurbau . A conversion of the neighboring road bridge was rejected as too expensive, and the tram could only have run there on a single track.

Construction work began in April 2014. Two 145 meter long bridge sections were prefabricated in Belgium. They were delivered individually across the Rhine and installed on the Kehler Zollhof site on the river bank. On December 18, 2015, the second part of the bridge was placed on the supports of the pillar in the Rhine and on the abutment on the German bank. To do this, the water level had to be raised a little via a weir. The construction project was thus completed in the presence of the mayors of Kehl and Strasbourg . The first tracks were laid in April 2016. In September 2016, pedestrians, cyclists and draisines were able to use the new bridge at a festival . The first tram crossed the bridge on a test drive on February 3, 2017.

The bridge was named after the German humanist Beatus Rhenanus after a proposal by the city administrations of Strasbourg and Kehl and the approval of the Kehler municipal council on April 5th . The tram line opened on April 29, 2017.

construction

It is a so-called “double bowstring construction” with two 20 meter high arches made of small box-shaped steel elements. Like the two neighboring bridges, the bridge rests on a central pillar in the Rhine.

Tram connection to Kehl

1898-1920

Since 1878 a horse-drawn tram has operated between Strasbourg and the Kehler Rhine Bridge. In 1897 the first modern road bridge between Strasbourg and Kehl was opened. Just one year later, on January 1, 1898, the first steam-hauled tram drove over this bridge, and on March 14 of the same year the line was electrified. Line 1 of the Strasbourg tram company subsequently ran to the city center of Kehl. The tram connection across the Rhine was heavily used. In 1914, for example, there was a ten-minute cycle between the inner cities of Strasbourg and Kehl, with trams running from 6 a.m. to midnight. On the right bank of the Rhine there were the stops “Kehl-Bahnhof”, “Friedensstraße”, “Kasernenstraße”, “Marktplatz” and “Kehl Dorf”, the terminus was at the former inn “Wilder Mann” at the height of today's post office.

After the end of the First World War , Kehl became a border town to France again. The tram connection across the Rhine was only maintained for a short time.

1942-1944

From August 15, 1920 to February 13, 1941, the tram only ran to the French side of the Rhine bridge. For a short time, between May 1942 and November 1944, when the Rhine bridge was destroyed by German soldiers during the Allied liberation of Strasbourg, there was another tram connection to Kehl.

After the end of the Second World War , there was only one bus connection between Strasbourg and Kehl: bus route F from 1946 until the withdrawal of the French occupation forces from Kehl in 1953 and the cross-border bus route 21 from 1958 to 2017.

As of 2017

The tram line D crosses the federal highway 28 coming from Strasbourg

On April 29, 2017, tram line D operated by the CTS , which until then had ended at the Aristide Briand stop in the Neudorf district of Strasbourg , was extended to the east. This route leads over the Port du Rhin district and on over the tram bridge to Kehl train station . On weekdays the tram runs between Strasbourg and Kehl every 12 to 15 minutes. Since November 23, 2018, it has ended at the Kehler Town Hall with a stop at the university .

Web links

Commons : Beatus-Rhenanus-Brücke  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.kehl.de
  2. ↑ The bridge has been closed in Badische Zeitung, December 19, 2015
  3. ↑ Kehl Tram Bridge: The first tracks are already in Baden Online, April 18, 2016
  4. ↑ bz: Ortenaukreis: Big festival around the new bridge. Badische Zeitung, September 24, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ bz: Southwest: Kehl and Strasbourg celebrate new bridge. Badische Zeitung, September 26, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Strasbourg tram stops at Kehler Bahnhof for the first time. baden-online, February 3, 2017, accessed on February 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Tram bridge is officially called "Beatus-Rhenanus-Brücke" in Baden Online, April 6, 2017
  8. ↑ a b Angelika Sadlau, Helmut Schneider, Carl Helmut Steckner: The Langenbruck: 600 years ways to neighbors . Kehl 1989, pp. 98-100.
  9. ↑ Klaus Körnich: "Excellent transport links" , Baden-online 24 November 2011 at
  10. ^ Annual journal 2016 of the city of Kehl, p. 108
  11. ↑ Hans Herrmann, Helmut Schneider: From hereditary enemy to European partner: The positive development of Franco-German relations on the Upper Rhine . Kehl 2010, pp. 34-35.
  12. ^ Badische Zeitung: The cross-border bus line 21 runs for the last time between Kehl and Strasbourg
  13. ↑ CTS timetable
  14. ↑ The tram is coming! Information from the city of Kehl
The next bridge up the river:
Europabrücke Kehl 		Bridges over the Rhine The next bridge down the river:
Rheinbrücke Kehl