Connecting railway bridge (Vienna)

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The connecting railway bridge with a regional train

The connecting railway bridge crosses the Danube Canal in Vienna and connects the districts of Landstrasse and Leopoldstadt . It serves the railway and is a component of the S-Bahn - original route (historically: see Municipal and Verbindungsbahn ).

location

Danube Canal regulation: transition from the area of ​​hard construction to stone throwing

The connecting railway bridge is in the immediate vicinity of the Franzensbrücke and the Kunsthaus Wien . In their area for the ends during the Austro-Hungarian Empire planned expansion of the Danube Canal as winter and commercial port necessary "hard" obstruction of the watercourse and goes back into the overgrown with grass and bushes embankment.

1859

The connecting line between the south and east stations and the former north station was planned by Carl von Ghega . The railway was opened on October 18, 1857 between the Südbahnhof and today's Wien Mitte station. The continuation to the North Station was very urgent for military reasons. Therefore, on July 1, 1859, a single-track temporary wooden bridge was put into operation.

1859-1884

The connecting railway bridge was built for the first time in railway history between 1859 and 1860 as a chain bridge based on the system of reinforced suspension bridges based on a patent from Friedrich Schnirch , a chief inspector for railways in the Austrian Ministry of Commerce. This bridge was very controversial even before it was built. but Ghega, whose deputy Schnirch was, was very committed to it.

When stress test the double-track bridge with 83.445 meter wingspan on 25 August 1860, the forces occurred other than the designer had anticipated, so that the pylon heads who should wear the chains, unable to withstand the load and it twists came the bridge. The bridge lay on the still existing falsework . The chains were then re-tensioned and the frame removed. However, a new load test with ten locomotives again resulted in a lowering that was greater than planned. Despite these difficulties - which, according to Schnirch, can be traced back to inadequate assessments - traffic was able to start as planned on September 2, 1860.

An expert dispute broke out that was not always conducted fairly. Karl von Etzel , who represented the Southern Railway Company , demanded certain guarantees from the state administration, since the connecting railway was meanwhile operated by various private railway companies, including the Southern Railway. However, the bridge could not withstand the increasing train weights, so that from 1880 onwards, despite the two-track design, only one train was allowed to use the bridge, and that only with a speed limit. On August 6, 1884, the last train crossed the bridge, which was then removed.

1884-1945

The second connecting railway bridge was a wrought-iron lattice truss arch bridge with a track structure on top. In order to facilitate the construction work required later, it consisted of two individual supporting structures for each individual track.

After the old bridge was closed, traffic was stopped for seven weeks, during which time the bridge designed by August Friedrich Nathanael Köstlin and Anton Battig was built. Since the Danube Canal had meanwhile been regulated, additional masonry was attached to the preserved supporting structures, so that the span of the new bridge was reduced to 69.6 meters. The opening took place on December 6, 1884.

In the section of the connecting line in the 3rd district, the Vienna Radetzkyplatz stop existed near the Danube Canal for several decades . During the Battle of Vienna in April 1945, the connecting railway bridge was blown up, whereby the pillars were preserved.

1945–1951

The Red Army built a makeshift bridge on wooden yokes. Operations ceased there on May 2, 1951.

1952 – today

The new connecting railway bridge was built between 1952 and 1953. It is a 470-ton arched truss girder bridge with a track structure on top. It was built using the pillars of the bridge from 1884, the design and execution of the steel construction work came from VÖEST . Commissioning took place on May 17, 1953

literature

  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube. Edition Wien, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 .
  • Walter Hufnagel (Ed.): Crossings. Bridges - City - Vienna. Verlag Sappl, Kufstein 2002, ISBN 3-902154-05-5 .
  • Alfred Pauser: Bridges in Vienna. A guide through building history. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-25255-X . - Table of contents online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b (C. v. Etzel):  The little capitalist. (...) Vienna, August 30th. The northern and southern railway companies have (...). In:  Die Presse , No. 220/1860 (XIIIth year), August 31, 1860, p. (4), top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  2. ↑ (Friedrich) Schnirch:  Sent in. In:  Die Presse , No. 222/1860 (XIIIth volume), September 2, 1860, p. (4), top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ^ The chain bridge on the Vienna connecting railway (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 206/1860, September 1, 1860, p. 3451, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 46 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 32 ″  E