Untermainbrücke

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 37"  E

Untermainbrücke
View upriver 2014
use	Road bridge
Crossing of	Main
place	Downtown Sachsenhausen (Main km 34.84)
construction	Steel-concrete composite girder bridge
overall length	252 m
width	19.70 m
Headroom	6.60 m
construction time	1872–1874 1948/49
location

The Untermainbrücke, direction Sachsenhausen

Memorial plaques to the bridge's history

The Untermainbrücke is a road bridge over the Main in Frankfurt am Main . At km 34.840 on the Main, it connects Neue Mainzer Strasse in the city ​​center with Schweizer Strasse in Sachsenhausen . It was built by Peter Schmick from 1872 to 1874 and blown up on March 26, 1945. The reconstruction took place in 1948/49. In 1989 and 1990 the bridge was completely renovated down to the bridge piers and rebuilt.

history

The Untermainbrücke was built from 1872 to 1874 as the fourth Main Bridge in Frankfurt, but was only the second road bridge after the Old Bridge from the Middle Ages . The approach bridges - two arches on the north and three on the south bank - as well as the four river piers were built in red Main sandstone . Five wrought-iron half-timbered arches, each 32 meters wide, spanned the river. The entire bridge was 252 meters long and 19.65 meters wide. The construction costs amounted to 1.1 million marks .

A horse-drawn tram has been running on the Untermainbrücke since 1896 , which was one of the first tram lines in Frankfurt to be electrified in 1899.

In 1933 the bridge was renamed Adolf Hitler Bridge . On March 26, 1945, three of the river arches along with the other bridges across the Main were blown up by an explosive force from the Wehrmacht .

At the end of 1945, a provisional wood and steel construction was placed on the largely undamaged pillars in order to make the - now renamed - bridge usable again at least for pedestrian traffic. Reconstruction began in June 1948. Instead of the old arches, a girder bridge was built on the existing pillars , which was opened on July 23, 1949. The sandstone arches on the north and south bank were preserved. The costs for the reconstruction amounted to 2,640,000 DM .

In 1984 the tram service over the bridge was stopped. In 1989/90 the bridge had to be completely renewed due to the structural damage that had occurred in the meantime. The entire bridge girder was removed and rebuilt. The arches and the sandstone railing of the approach bridges were reconstructed historically true to history. In between spans a modern girder bridge in a steel-concrete composite construction.

See also

• List of Main crossings in Frankfurt am Main

literature

• Walter Gerteis, The Unknown Frankfurt. Third episode . Frankfurt am Main 1963. Publishing house Frankfurter Bücher.
• Wolfram Gorr, Frankfurter Brücken , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0393-9
• Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt : Architecture Guide Frankfurt am Main / Architectural Guide . 3. Edition. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01236-6 , p. 28 (German, English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration: Route Atlas Main I. (PDF 11 MB) (No longer available online.) 2010, p. 42 , archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; accessed on January 22, 2015 . 

Web links

Commons : Untermainbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Untermainbrücke. altfrankfurt.com
• Untermainbrücke. In: Structurae
• The reconstruction of the inner city bridges. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013 ; Retrieved May 7, 2014 .