Theodor Heuss Bridge (Frankenthal)

49.5487416666678.4175944444444Koordinaten: 49 ° 32 ' 55.5 " N, 8 ° 25' 3.3 " E

F1

Federal Highway 6

Rhine

Named after the first Federal President Theodor Heuss Theodor Heuss Bridge, less commonly, Rhine bridge Frankenthal, leads the Federal Highway 6 between Highway kilometers 565 and 566 above the river, here the Upper Rhine, and connects the states of Rhineland -Palatinate and Baden- Württemberg. The four-lane bridge spans the river north of the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim in west-east direction on the route Saarbrücken- Kaiserslautern -Mannheim - Viernheimer triangle.

Construction

The length of the entire building, which consists of the actual current bridge and two approach bridges, is 830 m. The approach bridge on the west, the Rhineland-Palatinate page consists of three that. Located on the eastern side of six vaults Pillars and arches are faced with red sandstone. The western bank of the Rhine is at this point Frankenthaler district.

The current bridge consist of a superstructure for a carriageway and has a two -span continuous beam as a building system in the longitudinal direction. The steel girder bridge having span lengths of 147 and 161 m. The height of the bridge superstructure is constant at 6.0 m, the total width of 25.20 m.

Since no emergency lanes are present on the Theodor- Heuss- Bridge, it comes after accidents or during maintenance often long jams. As a special feature, the bridge has on the median strip a foot and bike path to cross the Rhine; in the separation of the two pillars bridgeheads are this stairwells.

History

The bridge, one of its designers, Friedrich Tamms, an architect from the environment of Albert Speer, was involved, was started in 1938. The current bridge at that time represented a distance record for beam bridges with underlying solid wall beams represents the preparation was carried out using the balanced cantilever with auxiliary yokes from the river piers, starting in both directions. On December 12, 1940, a serious accident, collapsed as a mounting yoke of the current bridge and 30 workers died occurred. Then, and because of the progressive WWII the continued construction was suspended. The work was only in 1948 resumed. On September 9, 1950, the first bridge superstructure was passed with two lanes by Federal Transport Minister Hans- Christoph Seebohm traffic, a few days later, Theodor Heuss, visited the bridge named after him. Entirely completed, the bridge was 1964.

In February 1981, a double murder was committed against two young people from Ludwigshafen at the bridge. As part of the investigation the act of broadcasting Aktenzeichen XY ... was unresolved by the September 18, 1981 cinematically reconstructed; thereby also the structural features were shown. Even before it had come to the bridge repeatedly killing crimes.