Wikipedia: The Auheimer main bridge is a railway bridge in Hanau, which crosses the main and connecting the Hanau districts of big Brook and small Brook.<br>The 240-meter-long bridge was when five-part grid box steel bridge for the single-track northern routes branch of the Odenwald railway, the Babenhausen with Hanau joins in 1882 at the railway line km taken 86,27 by the Hessian Ludwig railway. During the construction the four current pillars of red sandstone built just so wide, that the line would have can be extended by a second track, what never happened. Rather, this possibility was instead later used to carry a road parallel the main. This was 1925 the railway bridge on the western halves of the pillars of the bridge shifted and 1941 then built a road bridge, which could get so only a roadway, on the eastern half. At the end of the second world war, the railway bridge destroyed by the retreating Wehrmacht, the road bridge severely damaged. Both were later rebuilt. Conducting one-lane road, Bridge Street today, had to be protected due to the growing traffic in 1952 with a traffic light and was closed to traffic in 1982. It is passable only for pedestrians and cyclists since. The road bridge was the lowest in the history of the Rhine Main-Danube waterway with a clearance of 4.38 m for shipping. in 2005, two bridges segments to half a meter on the clearance of the bridge were raised.
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