Osten Transporter Bridge

The Transporter Bridge East Hemmoor is a 1909 put into operation Transporter Bridge in today's district of Cuxhaven. It crosses the river Oste between East and Hemmoor. Since 1974, the ferry is available as a technical cultural monument. Today it is part of the tourist route into German Ferries.

History

End of the 19th century East deliberations took place in the community, to replace the previously operated barge ferry that ran between East and Basbeck ( since 1968 the district of Hemmoor ) over the Oste by building a swing bridge. Problem until then was mainly the availability of the ferry, which was affected by high water levels in the Oste, influenced by the tides of the North Sea by storms and ice conditions. The construction of a swing bridge, however, was due to the high cost ( rough calculation amounted to 420,000 marks) abandoned and the loss of time when you operate the swing bridge.

On 10 May 1899, the council of the East took the decision instead to build a transporter bridge that could carry the road over the Oste regardless of the weather. Specification for the design was that the gondola room for two coupled wagons and 25 people offered. The supporting structure should be built so high that " vollbemastete seagoing vessels " could this go through unhindered. For this purpose, a clear height of 21 m above the highest water level was required.

Since the spring of 1903, the Company Machinery Factory Augsburg -Nürnberg developed (MAN) and General Electric Company ( AEG) specific plans for the development of the installation. However, as recently as April 1908, the financing of the Fährbaus could be clarified that started in late 1908. The construction management was up to the Berlin engineer Max Pinette. Despite the unfavorable construction start in the winter, the plant was completed by August 1909. Construction costs amounted including the electrical center to 180,000 marks. On September 25, 1909 was the official sample loading and acceptance. On shore Basbecker the official inauguration ceremony took place on 1 October 1909.

A first change experienced the system in the 1920s as the electric drive of DC was converted to three-phase.

In the 1962 storm surge, which reached a water level of 4.71 m above sea level in the east located at 3.60 m above sea lane of the Fährgondel was 1.71 m high flooded.

The rising in the context of mass motorization of transport numbers and for a very limited capacity of the transporter bridge led after the Second World War very quickly to long queues at the Transporter Bridge and thus correspondingly large traffic delays; during this time the transporter bridge always made ​​a profit. In order to take account of increasing vehicle loads, in 1966 the lower part of Fährgondel as a result of a finding of TÜV was renewed. At this time, however, was in the course of building the ring road east, a bridge in planning.

After the built in the years 1969-1974 Bridge at East was released for the federal highway 495 on May 30, 1974 the traffic on the ferry for public transport has been shut down during the day. In 1975, the county Hadeln the Transporter Bridge in his property. In the years 1975/76 the Fährgerüst obsolete ( sandblasting and new paint) was.

On October 17, 1975, the " conveyor Society for the Preservation of the Transporter Bridge East" was founded as an association. The production company took over operation of the ferry for purposes of tourism.

A report produced in 2001 report, it was found that significant deficiencies in the shoring and the technology existed, which led to a shutdown of the operation. In addition to driving the electrics was to renew and make rust protection on scaffolding. For the renovation were 1.1 million euros, mainly provided means of Lower Saxony. 2006, the renovation was completed, and have since been re- done with the Transporter Bridge tourist rides. It is a popular destination and has become a landmark of the region of Ostelandes and Deutsche Fährstraße.

2009 recorded the Federal Chamber of Engineers, the Transporter Bridge as a Historic Landmark of civil engineering in Germany.

Specifications

  • Built-up steel Quantity: 286 tons
  • Length: 90 m
  • Span of the superstructure: 80 m
  • Design bottom edge: 30 m above mean sea level
  • Height of the tray stand: 8 m
  • Overall height: 38 m
  • Portal length: 25 m
  • Supporting wall distance: 10 m
  • Floating frame: 8 x 8.75 m
  • Headroom at the highest water level: 21 meters
  • Track width of the car track: 9.20 m
  • Load: 18 t
  • Size of the gondola: 16 × 4.30 m
  • Dead weight of the gondola: 34 t
  • Engine: electric motor with an output of 13 kW
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