A minimal portion of the old road ramp on the Deutz side was preserved, together with cobblestones and tram tracks. In 1959 reconstruction of the bridge was completed.ĭuring the 1980s the bridge was renovated with two new tracks. The surviving portals and bridge towers were not repaired and were demolished in 1958. The (southern) road traffic decks were removed so that the bridge now only consisted of six individual bridge decks, built partly in their old form. By pedestrians could again use the Hohenzollern Bridge. On 6 March 1945 German military engineers blew up the bridge as Allied troops began their assault on Cologne.Īfter Germany surrendered on, the bridge was initially made operational on a makeshift basis, but soon reconstruction began in earnest. The Hohenzollern Bridge functioned as one of the most important bridges in Germany during World War II (1939-1945) even consistent daily airstrikes did not badly damage it. (south of the ramp on the left bank of the Rhine) Although the location of the bridge and of the railway station were already controversial in previous structures, the Hohenzollern Bridge adopted the orientation of the previous bridge on the central axis of the cathedral. The bridge consisted of three adjacent bridge parts, each with three iron truss arches (passage openings) in the longitudinal direction to accommodate four railroad tracks and a road. The construction of the Hohenzollern Bridge took place from 1907 to 1911 Kaiser Wilhelm II inaugurated it on. The railway engineer Fritz Beermann headed the project under his direction Friedrich Dirksen worked out the designs. The president of the Railway Directorate Cologne, Paul von Breitenbach, started planning the construction and handed over this work to his successor Rudolf Schmidt in 1906. (At the time, Cologne formed part of the Prussian Rhine Province.) The new bridge was named after the House of Hohenzollern, the rulers of Prussia and German Emperors. The Cathedral Bridge was unable to handle the increasing traffic in Cologne. The bridge was constructed between 19 after the demolition of old bridge, the Cathedral Bridge ( Dombrücke). It is the most heavily used railway bridge in Germany with more than 1,200 trains daily, connecting the Köln Hauptbahnhof and Köln Messe/Deutz stations. However, after its destruction in 1945 and its subsequent reconstruction, it was only accessible to rail and pedestrian traffic. Originally, the bridge was both a railway and road bridge. The Hohenzollern Bridge ( German: Hohenzollernbrücke) is a bridge crossing the river Rhine in the German city of Cologne (German: Köln). Hohenzollern Bridge, with Cologne Cathedral and Museum Ludwig in the backgroundĬologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Īrch bridge with suspended deck (1911) ġ18.88 metres (390.0 ft) - 167.75 metres (550.4 ft) - 122.56 metres (402.1 ft) (1911)
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