Die alte Pontonbrücke und die neue Eisenbahnbrücke in Speyer 1938

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Ship bridge and the new roads + railway bridge Speyer 1938The old pontoon bridge and the new railway bridge in Speyer 1938. In 1925 the first negotiations began between the German Reich, the German Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft and the states of Baden and Bavaria about the replacement of the ship bridges near Speyer and Maxau, which increasingly hindered the growing shipping traffic on the Rhine with fixed bridges. It was not until 1931 that those involved agreed that the German Reich and the DRG would each bear 1/3 of the construction costs and the two states would each bear 1/6. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Rhine crossing took place on September 23, 1933, but work on site on the combined road and railway bridge did not begin until mid-1935. The building was opened to traffic at the beginning of 1938 and was officially inaugurated on April 3, 1938. At the end of the Second World War, the bridge was blown up by German troops on March 23, 1945. The bridge was 563 m long and 13.