Die alte Ponton-Eisenbahnbrücke in Speyer/Pfalz über den Rhein. 1929

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The old ship bridge Speyer 1929The old pontoon railway bridge in Speyer/Palatinate across the Rhine river 1929. With a state treaty in 1862, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Bavaria, to which the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine belonged at the time, agreed to build a ship bridge for road traffic Speyer. The structure was built by the city of Speyer and put into operation in 1866. In 1871, an agreement was reached between Baden and Bavaria to build the Heidelberg–Schwetzingen–Speyer railway with a ship bridge to cross the Rhine. The route was opened on December 10, 1873. The Palatinate Ludwigsbahn Company bought the ship bridge from the city of Speyer and converted it into a combined road and railway bridge. The structure had to be assembled and then disassembled several times a day for the passenger trains on the Heidelberg–Speyer railway line so that shipping traffic could pass on the river.