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Wikipedia:<br>History<br><br>The coal from the Ruhr area via its network of railway was mostly left the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft had opened for railway Osterath - food on August 23, 1866 with the trajectory Rhine-hype high field. The Prussian military at the time only on garrison towns like Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz and Koblenz admitted the construction of firm Rhine bridges. As here by 1869 a change of mind interpret in themselves, the railway company immediately requested the construction of the bridge by Duisburg Rheinhausen.<br><br>The first bridge<br><br>The first Duisburg high fields railway bridge with a freight train early January 1874. In the foreground a Trajektschiff with passenger cars. Had the locomotive of the pillars of the left swing bridge. Behind the bridge of Duisburg high fields of industrial plants.  The Royal Prussian concession by 29 July 1871 for the construction of a railway bridge in the course of the Osterath Essen railway at Rheinhausen demanded conditions:<br><br>* Construction of the mine chambers at all bridge piers,<br>* Construction of Defense towers (Tambour units) on two bridgeheads and it connected bridges at the end of the bridge in case of war.<br>* Removal of Trajektanlagen on the banks<br>* Payment of 300 thalers to the military Treasury for two gunboats.<br><br>As the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft had largely prepared the building, could be started already early 1872 with the construction of the double-track bridge. Despite twice floods, it was completed after two years.<br><br>These, she received a brick bridge with 16 slots to each 50 feet of clear span. Because the swing bridge of approximately 34 metres followed long and 10 metres wide on a central pillar. She would be shot in the case Center to 90 ° and this for soldiers and trains have been impassable. At the drum tower, which had two openings for the mutual pedestrian walkways, the four jumpers with each 98 metre span followed on three pillars of power. You were made Haniel and Huyssen (later GHH) in Oberhausen as two-hinged truss Arch of 2,800 t wrought iron by Jacobi. To the East of the Rhine Tower a short tidal bridge with 6 openings joined behind the swing bridge a 50 foot. The bridge train had a length of around 800 meters.<br><br>After the police inspection of the bridge on December 23, 1873 ran freight from December 24, across the bridge. The passenger trains were trajektiert until January 14, 1874. Then, the Trajektanstalt comprehensive four routes could be mined. The Rhenish railway with approximately 2.5 million thalers specifies the construction costs.<br><br>The increasing rail traffic over the bridge and the increasingly difficult increasing train weights led around 1910 to the first damage to the bridge and emerged in early 1914 the first plans for a bridge building, but unfinished due to the first world war.<br><br>