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The Hindenburg Bridge (German: Hindenburgbrücke) was a railway bridge over the Rhine between Rüdesheim in the German state of Hesse and Bingen-Kempten state of Rhineland-Palatinate, named in 1918 after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, later German President. The bridge was put in service in 1915, destroyed in the Second World War and never ...
From 1913 to 1915, the Hindenburg Bridge was built between Rüdesheim am Rhein and Bingen-Kempten, connecting to the West Rhine line and the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn). From 1916 to 1918, the Neuwied–Koblenz line , including the Kronprinz-Wilhelm Bridge was built between Urmitz and Neuwied - Engers .
The area was settled first by the Celts, then after the turn of the Christian Era by Ubii and later by Mattiaci. In the first century, the Romans pushed forth to the Taunus . In Bingen they built a castrum , and on the other side, near what is now Rüdesheim, lay a bridgehead on the way to the Limes .
Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins. This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.
In 1900, operations were discontinued and some years later it replaced by the Hindenburg Bridge. This railway bridge, connecting Bingerbrück and Rudesheim, was built in the years 1913 to 1915 and destroyed during the Second World War. Since then there has been no way for trains to cross the Rhine near Bingen.
Running through Rüdesheim an der Nahe's municipal area is Bundesstraße 41, and running through the village itself are Landesstraße 236 and Kreisstraße 98, which is met by Kreisstraße 52 in the village's west end. Bundesstraße 41 affords drivers quick access to neighbouring Bad Kreuznach and to the Autobahn A 61 (Koblenz–Ludwigshafen ...
It was built from 1913 to 1915. In 1935, it was named Hindenburg Bridge after Germany's second President died the previous year. It collapsed on 28 February 1945 during repair works and was replaced in 1948 by the Deutz Bridge, the world's first steel box girder bridge, designed by Fritz Leonhardt and Gerd Lohmer. H. D.
Rüdesheim (Rhein) station is in the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in the German state of Hesse on the East Rhine Railway (German: Rechte Rheinstrecke).It is on the western edge of the town, separated from the Rhine only by federal highway B 42.