Scherkondetal Bridge
Germany
The Scherkondetal Bridge is a twin-track railway overpass on the new Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle line. Designed as a frame bridge, the 576.5 m long structure spans the valley of the Scherkonde river east of Krautheim (some 15 km north of Weimar) at a height of up to 34 m.
Project data
- Year of completion
- 2010
- Project duration
- 12 Months
- Country
- Germany
- Address
- Grossbrembacher Strasse 113
- Postcode
- 99439
- Town or city
- Krautheim
- Contractors
- Adam Hörnig Baugesellschaft GmbH & Co
- Structure
- Bridge
- Type of structure
- Cantilevered parapets
Cantilevered parapet
- Construction method
- Straight
- Number of spans
- 14
- Longest span
- 44 m
- Number of piers
- 11
- Length of bridge (superstructure)
- 576 m
- Width of bridge (superstructure)
- 13.95 m
- Height of bridge (up to top edge of superstructure)
- 33 m
- Parapet height
- 1.10 m
- Parapet width
- 0.45 m
- Height of inner shield
- 0.49 m
- Length of concreting section
- 26 m
- Number of casting sections
- 23