The Saale-Elster Viaduct project

VDE 8.2 New Line

  • The Saale-Elster Viaduct project
    Saale-Elster-Viaduct
    Photo: DB AG/Klaus Heinrich
  • The Saale-Elster Viaduct project
    Saale-Elster-Viaduct
    Photo: Nürnberg Luftbild, Hajo Dietz
  • The Saale-Elster Viaduct project
    Saale-Elster-Viaduct
    Photo: DB AG/Frank Kniestedt
  • The Saale-Elster Viaduct project
    Saale-Elster-Viaduct
    Photo: Nürnberg Luftbild, Hajo Dietz
  • The Saale-Elster Viaduct project
    Saale-Elster-Viaduct (construction progress)
    Photo: DB AG

South of Halle (Saale), the new line from Erfurt to Leipzig/Halle crosses the Saale-Elster floodplain on a viaduct with a length of around 6.5 kilometres. In addition, the city of Halle is being connected to the new line by means of an additional 2.1-kilometre line on the bridge. This merging with the Weißenfels-Halle line takes place before the new station of Halle-Ammendorf.

The continuous bridge from Erfurt eastwards links the line to the section from Gröbers to Leipzig airport/Halle, Leipzig trade fair centre, Leipzig central station and the Leipzig freight distribution centre. It takes the Erfurt-Halle branch over a suspended deck arch bridge on which the deck is suspended from a steel arch. In this section the Saale-Elster Viaduct is wider to accommodate four tracks. In the other sections it has two tracks.

 

Facts and figures

  • Construction length of main bridge: 6,465 m
  • Bridge width: 13.90 m
  • Width for line branching off: 29.2 m
  • Speed on main bridge: 300 km/h
  • Track centre distance: 4 m
  • Bridge heigh: max. 21 m
  • Girder span (cantilever length): 44 m
  • Suspended deck arch bridge (overpass structure) span length: 110 m
  • Bridge supports: 208
  • Length of bridge for line branching off to Halle: 2.112 km
  • Width of bridge for line branching off to Halle: 8.9 m
  • Speed on line branching off: 160 km/h
  • Superstructure construction type for the tracks: ballastless slab track
  • Completion: 2012

 

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.

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