Suburban line Danube Canal Bridge

The bridge of the suburban line over the Vienna Danube Canal with a class 4024 multiple unit

The bridge of the suburban line over the Danube Canal in Vienna connects railway lines in the districts of Döbling (19th) and Brigittenau (20th district). It has no official name and is therefore sometimes referred to as the Heiligenstädter Bridge or the connecting railway bridge .

location

The bridge is located near the Nussdorf weir and the Nussdorf lock, both inlet structures at the junction of the Danube Canal from the Danube river, between the stations Vienna Nussdorf and Vienna Heiligenstadt of the Franz Josefs Bahn and the freight station Vienna Brigittenau of the Danube bank .

In the north there is the river bank bridge leading directly over the two inlet structures , which connects the Danube bank railway with the Franz-Josefs-Bahn in the direction of Vienna Nussdorf. In the south or downstream, the four Danube Canal bridges at the Nussdorf junction of the Vienna road network are a short distance away .

Most of the bridge is located in the 20th district (until 1900: 2nd district), the westernmost part in the 19th district (the district border is the right bank of the Danube Canal).

history

1898-1983

The old bridge before the demolition

In the course of the construction of the Vienna Stadtbahn , a connection between the Brigittenau station of the Donauuferbahn and the Heiligenstadt station of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and the Stadtbahn was created, on which operations began on June 1, 1898. As with the Uferbahnbrücke, it was a three-part, single-track bridge with an arched structure in the middle. The opening of this main part was 62.55 meters, that of the side parts 16 meters each. The pillars and abutments were prepared for double-track expansion, but this has not yet proven to be necessary. Passenger traffic then took place mainly on the route Vienna Westbahnhof - Donauländebahn - Donauuferbahn - Heiligenstadt .

The bridge was damaged in the Second World War , but the Red Army repaired it in a simplified manner immediately after the end of the war . By 1950 it also had to take over the traffic on the Uferbahnbrücke.

After the new bridge was put into operation in the 1970s, the demolition work began immediately, but was delayed because the passage through the Danube Canal had to be guaranteed. With the help of two floating cranes , the structure was only removed in January 1983 and cut up directly on the bank.

1976 – today

In the course of the construction of the Nussdorf junction for car traffic, the bridge had to be relocated a bit to the north in 1976 and 1977, which necessitated a layer with an arch with a minimum radius of 190 meters. Today's bridge ( object 1962 ) is a three-span concrete bridge with spans of 30.0 meters, 52.0 meters and 39.5 meters and a trough cross-section of 1.05 meters. To reduce the shear stress, shear pins were attached in the support area. The bridge can be driven on at a maximum speed of 50 km / h. The opening took place on May 30, 1978.

For a long time, the bridge was mainly used for freight traffic; The extended suburb line was only used for events on the Danube Island . It was not until May 23, 1993 that the scheduled traffic of the S 45 from Vienna Hütteldorf , which until then ended in the north in Heiligenstadt, was brought to a provisional terminus at the Floridsdorfer Bridge on the Danube, from 1996 to the new, definitive terminus at Handelskai . Today, twelve S-Bahn trains per hour run over the single-track bridge during rush hour, which is close to its capacity limit.

literature

• Martin Paul: Technical guide through Vienna. Publisher Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1910
• Josef Pelz: Bridges under construction and planning. In: der aufbau , published by Wiener Stadtbauamt , No. 35, Vienna 1980, ISSN  0004-7805 , p. 185
• Peter Wegenstein: The connecting lines in the Vienna area. Verlag Pospischil, Vienna 1991 ( Bahn in picture 79, ZDB -ID 52827-4 )

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 14 ″  E