Approaches in Design, Prefabrication and Assembly of the Hamelin Chain Bridge, 1836-38
Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History, Madrid, 20th-24th January 2003, ed. S. Huerta, Madrid: I. Juan de Herrera, SEdHC, ETSAM, A. E. Benvenuto, COAM, F. Dragados, 2003. A matter to be considered in various directions: Approaches in design, prefabrication and assembly of the Hamelin Chain Bridge, 1836-38 Michael Mende DEMANDS OF AN INCREASING TRAFFIC transport on the road from Hanover via Northeim and Gottingen to Cassel or destinations in Thuringia made In Oecember 1817, only three years after Hanover approximately 6,000 tons ayear, while a little more had been restituted as kingdom within the German than 2,000 ton s annually were crossing the Weser at Confederation created as a result of the Vienna Hamelin to get their destinations in Lippe or eastern Congress, Victor Leberecht Prott (1781-1857) as an Westphalia (von Reden 1839,2: 301 and 321). In the engineer lieutenant colonel the technical chief of the long term Hanoverian efforts in road construction General Board of Roads presented his general road would shift the main link between the seaports of construction plan (Hindelang an Walther 1989, 14). Hamburg or Bremen and trading centers like His proposal was to improve the communication in Frankfurt on the Main or Nuremberg from its that kingdom by laying out a net finally comprising traditional route via Brunswick more to the west about 3000 km of main roads and more than 2000 km focusing the capital and the Leine valley (Scholl of secondary or connecting roads. At this moment 1978, 46). Following a policy of pushing long only 920 km of these roads being composed of a distance transit routes Hanover tried to keep the bottoming between kerbstones and paved with sand, goods transport as long as possible within the borders gravel, or limestone were opened to traffic.
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