The viaduct was built east of the main town of Marnheim. Its northern stone arch bridge remains stand on the northeast edge of the town at about 193 m above sea level. It is located 45 m south of the federal highway 47 and 200 m north of the mouth of the Goldbrunnengraben (Goldbrunnenbächlein) into the Pfrimm, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows there in a southwest-east-northeast direction, and carries a field path. About 240 m south-southeast of the center of the northern bridge remains, at a height of about 200 m near the southern bank of the Pfrimm, stands the stone pillar remains of the southern abutment.
History and description
The Pfrimmtal viaduct was built as a 260 m long and 30 m[2] high stone arch and half-timbered bridge with a superstructure made of lattice or steel girder construction between 1872 and 1874[1]. Its bridge piers were built on pile foundations.
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the bridge was blown up by retreating Wehrmacht troops on March 20, 1945. The connection to Mainz via Alzey was thus interrupted. After the war, there were efforts to rebuild the viaduct, but this failed - as did a new route without a viaduct - due to the costs.
Since the railway embankment to the north of the viaduct was removed when the B 47 was relocated, the northern part of the bridge remains free all around.