Oschuetztalviadukt / 07570 Weida, Germany
N 50° 46.911 E 012° 03.733
33U E 292910 N 5629681
A former railwaybridge in Weida, Thuringia!
Waymark Code: WMGZFZ
Location: Thüringen, Germany
Date Posted: 04/28/2013
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History
The single-track railway line Weida - Mehltheuer, with a length of 35 kilometers, was AM15. November 1883 after a relatively long construction period started.
At this time the branch line ended at the station Weida - Old Town. This resulted for the travelers who want to drive towards Gera, Saalfeld Werdau or more, many inconveniences, because the distance to the train station Weida had to be put back continuously or by wagon.
The other planned route of Weida - Old Town was originally to take place on the body of the car Saalfeld railway line, to let them open into the Weida station. Due to the fact that the railway embankment poured frequently went into a slide, it was decided to bridging the Oschütztales.
To the line for the construction of the viaduct Oschütztal Technical Officer in the Royal Treasury Dresden, Secret Fiscal Köpcke was commissioned. Kruger made to the design engineer.
As mentioned above, the spiritual fathers of Oschütztal viaduct was the architect Claus Köpcke (1831 - 1911) and the engineer Hans Manfred Krüger (1852/1853-1926). They were through a year long collaboration team, which together built several major bridges. Köpcke was a civil servant working in the Saxon Ministry of Finance and the State Railway.
He created the most famous building is the "Blue Wonder" in Dresden. The basic design of this bridge probably dates from Köpcke, Kruger has carried out the detailed plans.
As cheapest bridging the Oschütztal you chose a girder whose support for the system of oscillating pillar (hinged columns) was performed. In this embodiment, the iron-carrier parallelgurtigen were stored partly to pendulum supports. The stabilizer links are pivotally mounted so that they can follow, caused by temperature fluctuations change in length of the carrier.
A pendulum support bridge of this magnitude was first built at that time in Germany. With this structure, the remaining piece of length was 2.3 to Weida Railway Station, in the course of Oschütztal viaduct, am01. Be completed in October 1884.
The Oschütztal Viaduct has a length of 185 meters, the top of the rail is 28 meters above the valley floor. The two iron superstructures have a length of 101 meters above the valley and 54 meters above the shallower slope of the valley. The 16 meters high and 5.8 meters four times rectangular central pillar in the valley serves as a common support.
Due to the increasing amount of traffic had to be reinforced in 1915 Oschütztal the viaduct. This was done by installing a center beam in all tiers, also by attaching additional bracing in the pendulum supports.
For the masonry to break stones recovered in adjacent quarries used greywacke, the visible surfaces are partly composed of yellow sandstone Posta. What is necessary Rüstmaterial was brought from Crimmitschau.
After almost 100 years operation viaduct, with constantly increased axle loads, limiting its useful life had been reached. In recent years its use had to be set up as a slow route with 10km / h.
On 22 September 1982 went as planned for the last time the passenger train P18683 to Zeulenroda over the viaduct.
The newly laid stretch of 600 meters in length lead, bypassing the
Viaduct on the roadbed Weida - Saalfeld along and was involved behind the viaduct in the distance Werdau-Weida-Mehltheuer.
Deficiencies occurred because of the new route, the viaduct had to be used again for a short time after the scheduled decommissioning.
As early as 1977 the Oschütztal Viaduct was placed as a monument of the 'production and transport history "listed. Represented by experts from the Society for Conservation, the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Weimar and the DR in 1984 have been analyzed to what extent the girder bridge can remain as a technical monument continue or whether it should be demolished.
When Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt you tried since 1980 to find a perspective for the viaduct. Inputs initially prevented the demolition of this valuable technical monument.
Bridge Type: Truss
Bridge Usage: Railroad
Moving Bridge: This bridge is static (has no moving pieces)
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