The new railway overpass in Heppenheim

Night mission went according to plan

In the night from 09 to 10 November the new railway overpass in Heppenheim (Bergstraße) was successfully lifted in. Completely manufactured and coated each of the components was transported by truck to the construction site where it was assembled in a tandem lift. The transport length was approx. 18.6 m with a unit weight of up to 100 tons.

Donges SteelTec has been contracted with the manufacturing, delivery and assembly of the steel construction for the railway overpass in Heppenheim, Germany. The railway bridge will span the railway line 3601 Frankfurt – Heidelberg via the federal road B 460 “Lorscher Straße”.

The overpass consists of two separate superstructures. Each superstructure is designed as a trough bridge with thick sheet metal. On one side of each of the two superstructures a walkway will be added.The span width of the bridge is approx. 15.40 m, the construction height 0.8 m. This results in a slenderness of L/H = 19.25. Each of the superstructures is 4.70 m wide. The pavements have widths of up to 1.45 m.