Stauf disaster on the Klingerbrücke: Water pipe fracture ensures chaos!

Stauf disaster on the Klingerbrücke: Water pipe fracture ensures chaos!

Klingerbrücke, 04177 Leipzig, Deutschland - On Leipziger Karl-Heine-Straße there are currently considerable traffic impairments. The trigger is a water pipe break on the Klinger Bridge, which was discovered on Monday. Road users report viscous traffic jams, which often extends to the rock cellar and reaches a length of about one kilometer. While Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" sounds from the car radios, the Klinger Bridge increasingly becomes the city's "bottleneck". The merging of the straight-up and right-wing turning lane causes additional problems. A driver, Marko Hofmann from Plagwitz, described the situation as a "catastrophe" when he wanted to bring his daughter to Eutritzsch. For 50 meters in a traffic jam you currently need up to 15 minutes. The traffic jam also exacerbates because the Karl Bridge has been closed since April 2023 and the Zeppelin bridge is also not accessible. Class = "Source_1"> MDR reported.

The situation on the Klinger Bridge also raises questions about the safety and load -bearing capacity of the structure. This bridge, which was built in 1928 according to the plans of architect Georg Wünschmann, is urgently waiting for an upgrading. A load check was carried out in 2021, which cost 215,000 euros. The report found that the bridge must be closed for truck traffic to secure its lifespan until the planned new building in 2028. In any case, it has not been allowed since 2023 to drive the bridge with heavy vehicles, but violations of this ban on crossing were found. The police are responsible for the police, while the city can only monitor the state of the bridge. Problem.

renovation and traffic planning

The Klinger Bridge is not the only bridge that is in need of renovation in Leipzig. The over 100 -year -old bridges over the white magpie, the Elster flood bed and the elster basin require extensive measures. While the renovation of the Zeppelin Bridge, which is important for the new and wider trams of LVB, was postponed due to increased construction costs, the city is not just struggling to maintain its bridges. A monitoring system was installed to record the loads of the Klinger Bridge. So far, no strong effects on the bridge have been found, but the load -bearing capacity is only re -assessed for larger reactions during monitoring. Leipzig.de Transport policy.