Weserbrücke, Railway bridge in Hamelin, Germany

The Weserbrücke in Hameln is a disused single-track railway bridge over the Weser, completed in 1897 for the Begatalbahn line from Lage. Its steel superstructure, about 370 metres long, 4.7 metres wide and 6 metres high, spans 13 openings on sandstone-block piers. It is closed and partly dismantled.

The single-track bridge was completed in 1897 as part of the Begatalbahn between Lage and Hameln, built by the Prussian State Railways. German pioneers blew it up on 5 April 1945 as US troops approached Groß Berkel. Rebuilt from 1948 and reopened on 19 December 1949, it was closed after the line was abandoned in 1980 and listed as a monument in 1989.

The bridge belonged to the Begatalbahn, a single-track branch line from Lage to Hameln. Its narrow footpath beside the track, originally laid with wooden planks, was closed in 1996 and removed in 2009. Since 1989 the structure has been a protected monument, valued as the only surviving semi-parabolic truss railway bridge over the Weser.

The bridge has been closed since 1989 and partly dismantled; the narrow footpath beside the track, once planked in wood, was closed in 1996 and removed in 2009. Stone abutments and approach structures on both banks were demolished in 2003 and 2008. The surviving span can be viewed from the Weser banks and from the B 1/B 83 roads, which the railway once crossed on the west side.

The bridge is the only surviving railway bridge over the Weser built with half-parabola trusses; such structures were last used on the river in 1900 and 1910. Its narrow footpath, originally laid with wooden planks, was closed in 1996 and removed in 2009.