ROAD BRIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN LAND BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800260010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNT aY GermanZ (8ovi.et Zen REPORT
TOPIC RoaC T~rid os under Co .struction in Land ?'ranenbur~*
EVALUATION.
DATE OF CONTENT.
DATE OBTAIN
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
27 December 1950
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reconstruction on the o lovr1_rig
bridges in Land Brandenburg:
a. /.utobahn bridge nor Uetz (Y 53/Y 82). (1)
The clearing work csrriod out by the Lauchhainmer .t?irm is completed. It
would have been possible to start work on the raing of the concrete
pillars required for the two piers. The Velten Firm has been contracted
for this wor'k. However,, the pile driver required., which was to have boon
available at Vie construction site by 1 October, has not yet airived.
Information as to tether the pile driver will be available and. how much
tir,'o the ran.ming of the 52 pillars would require could. not be given.
A period of four weeks must te c'-i culated for this work.. including the
setting up and the removal o.` the pile driver. This would mean that
work on the construction of the bridge tresfs could not be started be-
fore the: beginning of December at the earliest. The construction of the
trestles would require another two or three weeks. The Kohn typo mili-
tary bridge equipment must be delivered by that time. Considering; an
estir atoll weight of 200 tons, the assembly work alone is expected to take
from 12 to 15 weeks. To this will have to be added the time required
for the laying of the flooring. It must therefore be expected that the
target date for the completion of t e bridge, set for 28 February 1951,
will be exceeded by four weeks.
b. Road bridge near Marquardt (i' 53/Z 51..). (2)
+orlc on she lifting of the remr:,ining bridge section on the northern side
can be - started only after the erection o:. the second 1l.: tiny; scaffold and
the pouring of be concrete of the abutments. ~~ork on the lifting; sca:i-
fold in :expected to be completed by L. j-cvexber 191.0. The forms for the
abutments have boon up for two weeks, but the concreting cannot be start-
ed because 25 percent of the crushed stones required are still missing,
arty next week this crushed stone is expected to arrive. The remaining
work on the last bridge section at the southern end will probably be
co?r.pleted by 1 November 1950. Thereupon work on the removal of the old.
abutment will be started. '.Chit will be completed in tr- or three wwweeks.
It will be difficult to keep the target date for the completion of the
bridge which was fixed for 30 November.
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c. Road bridge across the Strenggraben.
The clearing work is presently: still concerned with the removal of the
reinforcing rods of the destroyed bridge. The river bed will then be
cleared of the bridge debris. 11work on the ramming of the pillars will
hardly begin prior to 6 November, The pile driver is already at the construc-
tion sited However, only one third of the pillars requir4d are available
The remainder will have to be sent from other construction sites. The
concrete superstructure of the bridge will hardly be completed this year. (3)
d. Road bridge near ?laumgarten. (1)
Minor work on the bridge railing will be completed within the next, two weeks.
This will not impede the concreting of the roadway which is 50 percent com-
pletedn The bridge may well be completed by the end of this year.
e. Quenzstra .sen Bridge o (5)
Work on the ramming of the concrete pillars was started. The work is proceed-
ing slowly and the completion of the bridge by the end of this year is
believed improbable,
Conments.
(1) e brie near Uetz is located on the western section of the Autobahn ring 50X1-HUM
around Berlin, which is of importance as a western bypass around the city.
The target date mentioned for the completion of th,~ bridge,, i.e. 28 February
19;')1, was previously reportedo . The bridge will be a
steel structure capable of carrying truck-laying vesicles of 60 tons and 50X1-HUM
wheeled vehicles of 15 tons. The cost of the reconstruction of the bridge
was estimated at 600,000 castmarksa
(2) The road bridge in T. Par uardt is on category
road No 337 and crosses the
Sac.rm-i'aretz Canals
The bridge is only of
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local importance.
(;;) The bridge, across the Strong Ditch in Warder, 9
is on National lia_ghway No 1
connecting Berlin and 4Pagdeburg,
This highway
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is of
runnin
ti.) The s
importance as an alternate east-west art
g parallel to it.
o-called Baumgarten Bridge is near herder
ery supplementing the autobahn
, on the same road as the
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bridge
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under field comment (3).
-called Quenz Bridge in Brandenburg is a
lso on National Highway No 1
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