Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst

VDE 8.1 New Line

  • Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
    Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
  • Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
    Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
  • Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
    Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
  • Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
    Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
  • Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst
    Weißenbrunn Viaduct at Forst

The planned two-track Ebensfeld-Erfurt line crosses the valley of the Weißenbrunner Bach stream east of the municipality of Untersiemau in Weißenbrunn am Forst in the administrative district of Coburg (Bavaria).

Between the sides of the valley to the north and south, the valley has a level floor with the Weißenbrunner Bach stream flowing through the northern part of it.

 

Facts and figures

  • Bridge length: 614 m
  • Width: 14,30 m
  • Span lengths: 43 - 7x44 - 50 - 76 - 50 (frames 176 m) - 44 - 43 m
  • Frame span length: 76 m
  • Construction depth: 4 m
  • Construction height: 4,925m
  • Earth excavated: approx. 17.500 m
  • Concrete for foundations, frames, supports and abutments: approx. 8.500 m3
  • Concrete for superstructure, including edge capping: approx. 9.000 m3
  • Reinforcing and prestressed steel: approx. 2.100 t

 

More Informationen: DB Netz AG

 

Contact

Alexander Strutzke
Alexander Strutzke
Dipl.-Geogr.
Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH)
Sales and Marketing Manager
phone: +49 (931) 35503-550

Successful project collaboration with EPLASS:

Since EPLASS is already being successfully used for all the single projects of the German Unity Project No.8, it will also be used for the project organization of this subproject.

To facilitate the complex construction management in a central system, the project participants decided to work with the internet based project collaboration platform EPLASS. All processes are easily accessible for all project participants at any time and any place. Everything from the correspondence, to the construction reports, structural analysis, check reports and claims are organized, reviewed and archived within EPLASS. The project participants consists of the above named joint venture, the German Railway (DB AG), external designers, checking engineers, geotechnical engineers and the building inspection. The federal railway authority is also involved in this project.