The Froschgrundsee Viaduct

  • The Froschgrundsee Viaduct
    Froschgrundsee Viaduct
  • The Froschgrundsee Viaduct
    Froschgrundsee Viaduct (construction progress May 2008)
  • The Froschgrundsee Viaduct
    Froschgrundsee Viaduct (construction progress midyear 2008)
  • The Froschgrundsee Viaduct
    Froschgrundsee Viaduct (construction progress 2009)
  • The Froschgrundsee Viaduct
    Froschgrundsee Viaduct (background: Grümpen Viaduct)

The planned two-track Rödental section of the new Ebensfeld-Erfurt line east of the municipality of Weißenbrunn vorm Wald crosses the Pöpelbach Valley and the Froschgrundsee lake at a height of about 65 metres.

The valley has steep sides and a level valley floor about 300 metres wide containing the Froschgrundsee lake. On its south side there is a municipal road and the River Itz, which takes its natural course and has wooded banks, and on the north side there is the St 2206 main road.

 

Facts and figures:

  • Total length: 798 meter
  • Duration of the project: 2006 - 2011
  • Total project volume: 15.5 Mio. Euro (planned)
  • Width: 14.30 m
  • Span lengths: 6×44 - 9×30 - 6×44 m
  • Arch span: 270 m
  • Construction depth: 3.60 m
  • Construction height: 4.525 m

 

 

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.