The structure was built in 1995/96 as part of the ABS 41 Hamburg-Büchen (- Berlin) upgrade project.

The single-span structure, with a span of 46.9 m, consists of a single-track superstructure in the form of a hollow steel box girder. The roadway is designed as an orthotropic slab consisting of a deck plate, longitudinal girders, and transverse bulkheads. The longitudinal girders are 350 x 20 mm flat steel bars, supported at 2468 mm intervals by transverse bulkheads. Service walkways are located on both sides of the superstructure and are equipped with cable ducts for cable routing. The superstructure is supported without restraint by spherical bearings on the reinforced concrete abutments. The fixed point is located at the north abutment. The abutments are of solid construction and are set back slightly from the south canal. The wing walls run parallel to the track axis. The western wings, running along the embankment slope, are 9.0 m long. The wing walls between the main line and the S-Bahn tracks are 4.8 m long. The abutments are founded by vertical, full-displacement bored piles according to DIN 4014 with a diameter of 48/56 cm (Fundex type). Due to damaged piles, the pile pattern was supplemented with TUBEX full-displacement bored piles (Ø 324/470-560 and Ø 368/470-560). Horizontal tensile forces are absorbed by GEWI single-bar piles with a diameter of 63.5 mm. The GEWI piles are arranged both along the track axis at the rear edges of the pile caps and perpendicular to the track axis at the eastern edges of the pile caps. The inclination of the GEWI piles is 1:1. The GEWI piles, running perpendicular to the railway axis, undercut the S-Bahn embankment. The abutments build over the western wings of the existing S-Bahn abutments. Details regarding the removal of these wings are unknown. As part of this process, the S-Bahn abutment wall was modified and notched out to accommodate the main line superstructure. The area between the leading edges of the main line abutments and the S-Bahn abutments was filled with gravel to approximate the original condition and covered with paving stones. Behind the pile caps and in the western embankment areas, mortar-filled columns were installed to improve the subsoil down to below existing soft layers. For the construction of the structure, two layers of anchored sheet piles were installed as excavation support between the S-Bahn and main line tracks. These were subsequently cut back to approximately +8.0 m above sea level. The sheet pile walls were integrated into the wing walls of the abutments, with strand anchors running through the S-Bahn embankment. The shoring axis extends to the rear edge of the arch structure. Between the front edge of the main line abutment and the rear abutment wall of the arch structure, the shoring is designed as a permanent structure with a concrete beam and anchored with GEWI anchors, which also undercut the S-Bahn embankment. Additional sheet pile walls are present perpendicular to the track axis and on the west side, with their top edge at approximately +3.4 m above sea level. The surface of the abutment and wing walls is made of exposed concrete. Between the axis of the western excavation wall and the abutments, there is a 0.8 m gap at the north abutment and an approximately 1.3 m gap at the south abutment, which, according to existing documentation, was filled with concrete.

Structural Engineering Data:

• Construction Type: Steel Box Girder

• Number of Tracks: 1

• Number of Superstructures: 1

• Number of Openings: 1

• Clear Span: 44.5 m

• Spread: 46.9 m

• Superstructure Width: 6.9 m

• Structural Height: 2.31 m

• Construction Height: 3.05 m

• Crossing Angle with Watercourse: approx. 100 gon

• Longitudinal Gradient: 0.000%

• Cross slope / cant: 0.00 mm

• Track curve radius: R = ∞

• Water level: +0.05 m above sea level

• Lower edge of structure: ~ +6.6 m above sea level

• Clearance height (water level +0.05 m above sea level): ~ 6.55 m

• Load profile: UIC 71 and SSW

• Top of rail: +9.61 m above sea level