Usseln Viaduct
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31 ″ E
| Usseln Viaduct | ||
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| Convicted | Uplandbahn | |
| Subjugated | Diemel | |
| place | Usseln , North Hesse | |
| construction | Arch bridge made of natural stones | |
| overall length | 86 m | |
| Number of openings | 4th | |
| Longest span | 16 m | |
| height | 17 m | |
| completion | 1916 | |
| closure | 1999-2003 | |
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| Above sea level | 610 m above sea level NHN | |
The Usselner Viaduct is a four-arch, single-lane railway bridge of the Uplandbahn in Usseln , a district of the municipality of Willingen (Upland) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The viaduct, at kilometer 57.9 of the Uplandbahn leading from Korbach via Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt , bridges the valley of the Diemel and a local road (the "Sportstraße") in the southwest of the locality of Usseln. Usseln train station is about 800 m further east.
Bridge data
The viaduct is 86 m long. It is an arched bridge made of natural stone with four arches with a span of 16 m each , three bridge piers and two abutments . The clear height of the two central arches is 17 m.
history
The viaduct was built from 1914 to 1916 by the Royal Prussian State Railroad by the Cassel Railway Directorate as part of the Wabern-Brilon-Wald railway line, which was completed on April 2, 1917 with the opening of the Willingen Viaduct and thus the Usseln-Willingen section (in the Korbach - called Brilon Wald Uplandbahn ). After a temporary break from 1999 to 2003, it is still used today for rail traffic.
In November 1999, traffic on the railway line had to be temporarily suspended due to defects in the viaducts near Willingen, Usseln, Rhena and Bömighausen . The viaducts near Usseln and Willingen were renovated in 2002 and 2003, respectively, using a process developed by an engineering office in Kassel. The pillars, the interior of which consisted of poured concrete of varying quality and strength, were provided with numerous holes 80 mm in diameter up to the foundations and the arches with holes 30 mm in diameter, and these holes were then filled with a cement suspension , which was after Hardening provided new strength. The outer facade was cleaned with water pressure of 2000 bar , loose rock was removed, and then a new outer shell was created with shotcrete . The superstructure of the two viaducts was also completely renewed, with the sleepers from 1916 being replaced by Y-shaped steel sleepers and the rails from 1960. The smaller viaducts at Rhena and Bömighausen were completely renewed in 2003. After this extensive renovation work, rail operations were resumed on the line in December 2003.
Footnotes
- ↑ Clear height of the two middle arches.
- ↑ Reopening of the Korbach - Willingen railway line , accessed on October 18, 2019