The Hindenburg Bridge was a railway bridge over the Moselle between Wasserliesch and Igel. It did not officially have a name, but soon after it was put into operation, popular opinion named it after Field Marshal and later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. The bridge, which was put into operation in 1912, was most likely blown up by the Wehrmacht towards the end of the Second World War and was not rebuilt afterwards.
The truss bridge with a length of 221 m was part of the Ehrang–Trier Hbf–Karthaus–Igel freight train line, which, together with the tracks of the Koblenz–Perl Moselle line, formed a four-track connection between Trier Hbf and Karthaus. It was intended to relieve the pressure on the Konzer Mosel Bridge, which has existed since 1861 and is just over a kilometer further downstream from the Moselle. Triggered by the increased transport volume with the commissioning of the Eifel line in 1871 and the Moselle line in 1879, considerations arose in 1907 about ending the laborious process of pushing heavy trains from the Konz-Karthaus marshalling yard over the existing Moselle bridge. The so-called Hindenburg Bridge was opened on April 20, 1912. The heavy coal and coke trains now exclusively used the new railway bridge on the Konz – Igel route.
After its destruction in February 1945, it was decided in 1953 not to rebuild the bridge. The exact circumstances of their destruction are not exactly known. The bridge was probably blown up, but it may also have been bombed. The remains of the river pillars were removed during the Moselle canalization in 1960. On the Igeler side, part of the feeder dam with several brick arches is still preserved.
In June 2016, the regional press reported that Deutsche Bahn, which is still the owner of the ruins and the surrounding property, would like to have the remains of the bridge (which are not listed) auctioned off via an auction house.