Railway connections were brought to Jihlava by two companies, the Austrian Northwestern Railway (Österreichische Nordwestbahn, ÖNWB) and the Bohemian-Moravian Transversal Railway (Böhmisch-Mährische Transversalbahn, BMTB). The transversal railway connecting Domažlice with Trenčianská Teplá mainly passed in the western part through difficult terrain and its construction involved a number of companies that had had experience with similar contracts. The section from Veselí nad Lužnicí to Jihlava was built by the Brno-based Redlichové a Berger company together with the Oskar Životský company from Tišnov. Both companies built several bridges on this stretch. Instead of the usual iron structures, for economic reasons they opted for masonry arch bridges made of quarry stone, which, although commonly used for less important constructions, blended particularly well with the local diverse landscape.
Four viaducts were also constructed in Jihlava itself, on the line between the Jihlava-město station and the Main Train Station (Hlavní nádraží). The foundation stone for the largest of them was laid on 6 April 1886. On 26 October 1887, the last technical test took place and the line section was commissioned on 3 November. The 164.85-metre-long bridge consisted of nine stone arches with a span of 9 metres and a 50-metre-long trussing system at a height of 17 metres above the surface of the Jihlava River. The original steel structure was replaced by a contemporary structure in 1972. In 2011, the administrative office of the National Heritage Institute (Národní památkový ústav) in Telč submitted a proposal to register the viaduct on the list of cultural monuments. A similar eight-arch stone bridge was also built in front of the Main Train Station in Jihlava (49.4125278N, 15.5993556E). Another bridge, originally a truss bridge, which was later replaced by reinforced concrete with a solid steel central span, crosses Havlíčkova Street (49.4106750N, 15.5928056E) and the last bridge, which was also replaced by modern reinforced concrete, is located over Pražská Street (49.4047611N, 15.5863167E).
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Railway viaducts -
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Havlíčkova, Okružní, Pod Jánským kopečkem, Jihlava -
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Trail
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Code
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Monument preservation
Buffer zone of the Jihlava urban conservation reserve
Literatura:
Alois Šimka, První železnice na Vysočině, Vlastivědný sborník Vysočiny, oddíl společenských věd, 1956, č. 1, s. 157–164.
Vladimír Klimeš, 100 let trati Jihlava – Veselí na Lužnicí 1887–1987 [Veselí nad Lužnicí 1987].
Mojmír Krejčiřík, Po stopách našich železnic, Praha 1991, s. 149–151.
Zdeněk Jaroš – Přemysl Veverka, Historie a současnost podnikání na Jihlavsku, Žehušice 2001, s. 113–115.
Krj [Mojmír Krejčiřík], Most železniční, in: Hana Hlušičková (ed.), Technické památky v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku II (H–O), Praha 2002, s. 161.
Petra Harnušková, Historie železniční dopravy v Jihlavě v letech 1871–1918, Vlastivědný sborník Vysočiny, oddíl společenských věd, 2006, č. 14, s. 107–133.
/mz – vv [Michal Zlámaný – Vladislava Valchářová], heslo Železniční viadukt, in: Lukáš Beran – Vladislava Valchářová – Jan Zikmund (eds), Industriální topografie / Kraj Vysočina, Praha 2014, s. 33.
Ostatní zdroje:
Petra Flokovičová – Pavel Macků, Dokumentace průmyslového dědictví okresů Havlíčkův Brod, Jihlava, Pelhřimov, Třebíč a Žďár nad Sázavou, nepublikovaný rukopis pro výzkumný úkol č. 401, územní plošný a oborový výzkum industriálního dědictví NPÚ, Telč 2011, s. 75–86.
