Wiesengrund valley bridge
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 54 ′ 40 ″ E
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| place | Heilberscheid | |
| overall length | 338 m | |
| height | 35 | |
| opening | 2002 (commercial commissioning) | |
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The Wiesengrund valley bridge is a 338 m long railway bridge on the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main in the northeastern municipality of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Heilberscheid and south of the municipality of Nomborn . The structure takes up two tracks on a slab track , which can be driven on as planned at 300 km / h.
With a height of up to 35 m, it is the highest valley bridge in the Westerwald district .
course
The route begins by describing in a southeasterly direction a left turn, the line changes to a. The gradient rises.
The Eichen-Diekenscheid tunnel follows the structure to the east, and the Eichheid tunnel to the west .
history
At the end of 1995 the planned length of the structure was 375 m. The regional planning procedure was completed at this point.
At the end of 1997, a length of 320 m was planned for the structure.
In mid-1999, the structure was planned with the length of 338 m, which was realized later.
The nine-span continuous girder bridge was built using the incremental launching method .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhein / Main, project management (ed.): New Cologne – Rhein / Main line: construction section middle, Lot B: Selters – Brechen , brochure (20 pages), Frankfurt am Main, January 1999, p. 8 .
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, network division, project management for the Cologne – Rhein / Main line (publisher): route map for the new Cologne-Rhein / Main line . Map from November 1995, Frankfurt 1995.
- ↑ DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhein / Main (Ed.): Route map: New Cologne-Rhein / Main line , Frankfurt am Main, November 1997.
- ↑ DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhine / Main: New Cologne-Rhine / Main line: route map , Frankfurt, June 1999.
- ↑ Without author: The project for the new Cologne – Rhine / Main line . In: Eisenbahn JOURNAL: Tempo 300 - The new Cologne – Frankfurt line . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , pp. 34–63.