General Information
| Name in local language: | Hochbrücke Hochdonn |
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| Beginning of works: | 1913 |
| Completion: | 1919 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
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| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
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| Structure: |
approach viaducts: Deck truss bridge main span: Through truss bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Hochdonn, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 54° 0' 58.90" N 9° 17' 49.92" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 143.10 m | |
| total length | 2 218 m | |
| length of drop-in span | 121.10 m | |
| number of tracks | 2 |
Quantities
| structural steel | 15 000 t |
Materials
| piers |
steel
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| truss |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Hochdonn High Bridge (Hochbrücke Hochdonn in German) is a railway bridge in the Marsh Railway crossing the Kiel Canal near Hochdonn, Germany. It is a riveted steel bridge, "exposed to extreme railway traffic".
History
The rail bridge was opened on 11 June 1920.
The central part of the main span suffered from general deterioration, but damage caused by two ship collisions made it necessary to substitute a new center part. On 6 November 2006 the 1.465-metric-ton (3,230 lb) 121.10-meter (397.3 ft) long span was removed and carefully passed between the 120-meter gap of the two existing support points. Once removed, the steel structure was lowered onto a transport barge. The new structure that arrived the night before on another transport barge was lifted into place. While lowering and lifting work was going on, this section of the canal was closed and a large number of ships were waiting to pass; the alternative was to navigate around the northern tip of Denmark.
The new central span was also raised by 2 meters (6.6 ft) to a height of 42 meters (138 ft) above the canal, the same height as other bridges on the canal.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Hochdonn High Bridge" and modified on May 27, 2022 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1997): Brücken am Weg. Frühe Brücken aus Eisen und Beton in Deutschland und Frankreich. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 978-3-433-01299-4, pp. 122-123.
- (2007): Der Ersatzneubau des Schwebeträgers Hochdonn - Konzepte und Realisierung. In: Stahlbau, v. 76, n. 2 (February 2007), pp. 69-78.
- (2006): Zur Weiterverwendung der Eisenbahnhochbrücke Hochdonn über den Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. In: Stahlbau, v. 75, n. 2 (February 2006), pp. 145-160.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20002053 - Published on:
30/09/2001 - Last updated on:
03/06/2022
