Hindenburg Bridge

Hindenburg Bridge
Sketch of location from 1925
Overview
Locale	Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Termini	Rüdesheim Bingen (Rhein), formerly Bk Rochusberg
Line number	3514
Technical
Line length	6.7 km (4.2 mi)
Route map from Wiesbaden 26.2 Geisenheim 28.6 30.3 Rüdesheim Right Rhine line to Koblenz 32.8 Former Hindenburg Bridge Rhine Left Rhine line from Mainz Gau-Algesheim (section shown incomplete) Ockenheim 34.8 Bingen (Stadt) 38.4 Nahe (section shown incomplete) Bingen Hbf Left Rhine line to Koblenz B 9 A 61 (section shown incompete) Nahe Bad Kreuznach freight yard 51.5 Bad Kreuznach(wedge station) Nahe 55.5 Bad Münster am Stein Nahe Valley line to Saarbrücken and Glan Valley Railway to Homburg (Saar) Source: German railway atlas

Source: German railway atlas

The Hindenburg Bridge was a railway bridge over the Rhine between Rüdesheim in the German state of Hesse and Bingen-Kempten state of Rhineland-Palatinate, named in 1918 after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, later German President. The bridge was put in service in 1915, destroyed in the Second World War and never rebuilt.

Since 2002 the remains of the Hindenburg bridge has been the easternmost point of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

The bridge was preceded by the Bingerbrück–Rüdesheim train ferry, opened in November 1861, making the first connection between the Nassau Rhine Railway of the Nassau State Railway (German: Nassauische Staatsbahn) and the Nahe Valley Railway of the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company (Rhein-Nahe-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). This created a freight connection between the Rhine-Main and Saar areas and opened a new market for Saar coal. The freight ferry carried wagons until 1900. The passenger ferry was operated by Prussian State Railways until July 1907. After that passengers were able to use the tram to Bingen and the Bingen–Rüdesheim ferry.