Jędrzychowice viaduct

Jędrzychowice viaduct
use	Railway bridge
Convicted	Węgliniec – Görlitz railway line
Subjugated	Hennersdorfer water
place	Jędrzychowice
Entertained by	PKP Polskie Line Kolejowe
construction	Arch bridge made of stone
overall length	150 m
Number of openings	11
height	11 m
building-costs	58,141 thalers
	location

51.182006 15.019677Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 55 ″ N , 15 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ E

The Viaduct Jędrzychowice is a railway bridge over the Hennersdorfer Wasser near Jędrzychowice ( Hennersdorf ) in the powiat Zgorzelecki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . The viaduct is located east of Jędrzychowice.

description

The viaduct is 150 meters long, about 11 meters high and has 11 arches. The outer arches are each used as a way through, they have a clear width of around 10 meters. The remaining arches measure a width of about 5.6 meters. The pillars at the valley edges stand on firm gravel, the pillars in the middle are surrounded by sheet pile walls. White sandstone from the area around Hochkirch was used for the construction .

history

The construction cost the operator of the future railway line - the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn (NME) - 58,141 Thaler , 22 Silver Groschen and 6 Pfennig .

On September 1, 1847, the continuous Görlitz – Kohlfurt railway was opened. Between November 15, 1846 and the opening of the entire line, the trains from Kohlfurt only ran to the Hennersdorf interim station, as the Görlitz Neisse viaduct was not yet completed.

On May 7, 1945, the Hennersdorfer Viaduct was blown up by Wehrmacht troops and traffic on the railway line was interrupted. Five arches were blown up on the last day of the war. After the end of the Second War , the areas east of the Lusatian Neisse fell to Poland in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . The remains of the railway bridge were now also on Polish territory. In the following months the Polish State Railways (PKP) had the brick viaduct rebuilt. However, the statics of the bridge were permanently disturbed. Almost all arches had to be secured in the following decades with rail anchors made of pr.15 profile (Krupp 1883), which span pillars and vaults. Between 2006 and 2007 the viaduct was renovated and the superstructure was renewed. The renovation took place within the framework of a German-Polish agreement concluded in 2003 for the expansion of the Dresden – Wroclaw rail link.

Web links

Pictures of the viaduct on dolny-slask.org.pl

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b C. G. Th. Neumann: History of Görlitz . E. Remer, Görlitz 1850, p. 713 .
^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 11 .
^ Wilfried Rettig: Görlitz railway junction . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1994, ISBN 3-922138-53-5 , p. 53 .
^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 15 .

[Neumann-1] A ^b C. G. Th. Neumann: History of Görlitz . E. Remer, Görlitz 1850, p. 713 .

[2] Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 11 .

[3] Wilfried Rettig: Görlitz railway junction . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1994, ISBN 3-922138-53-5 , p. 53 .

[4] Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 15 .