Haus-Knipp railway bridge
51.4786111111116.6805555555556Koordinaten: 51 ° 28 ' 43 "N, 6 ° 40' 50" E
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Railway Oberhausen- Moers
Rhine
The house - Knipp Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over the Rhine north of Duisburg- Ruhrorter ports between Duisburg and Duisburg- Beeckerwerth Baerl in the course of today's railway Oberhausen to Moers.
History
Construction of the bridge began in March 1910. On October 1, 1912, she was opened for freight. Passenger trains were only from 1929 on the bridge. At the end of the Second World War, the bridge was blown up. With the help of British pioneers has already been rebuilt from 1945 in its old form with its characteristic timber framing construction and opened to traffic on 26 February 1946. The regular movement of passenger trains ceased in 1983. Between 1998 and December 2012, the double-track bridge was operating only on the southern track, the other track was shut down between Baerl and Beeckerwerth and partially degraded. The work to restore the duality began in May 2012.
The main current opening has a width of 186 meters and was with this measure at the time of the far most strained timber framing carrier in Europe. Left and right followed by two slightly smaller, 106 -meter long truss bridges. The Vorflutgelände is left of the Rhine bridges with three bays, the right bank there are nine yokes. Since for both tracks constructively independent bridge girders were built, so it involves a total of 24 each 41 meter long truss bridges with a design weight of about 2,600 tons, which were supplied by the iron construction sites of the former Friedrich -Alfred - hut in Duisburg- Rheinhausen. The construction costs were about 8.5 million gold marks (now equivalent to about € 44,395,881 ). 1912 was the house - Knipp Bridge, the first bridge in Duisburg stream without a bridge towers.
Naming
The bridge is an old landmark for Navigation on the Rhine. The eponymous manor house Knipp was located in close proximity to the bridge and was demolished in 1939 in the Rhine dike increase.