Sleeping Beauty Bridge

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The Dornröschenbrücke over the Leine in Hanover, seen from the bank in Linden-Nord towards Nordstadt in summer 2014

The Sleeping Beauty Bridge in Hanover is a prestressed concrete bridge built over the Leine at the end of the 1950s , which connects the Hanoverian districts of Linden-Nord and Nordstadt . The prestressed concrete structure, named after the nearby Café Dornröschen , between Brackebuschstrasse and Wickopweg , leads from Linden to an allotment garden and university sports area and on to the Herrenhausen Gardens and the campus of Leibniz University Hannover . The Sleeping Beauty Bridge is also the scene of the vegetable battle between the Nordstädtern and the Lindenern , which takes place regularly in September .

history

Leinau Bridge

Just a few meters further to the east, up the river has already been the era of National Socialism and the middle of the Second World War in 1940 at the height of Leinaustraße stretched a first wooden bridge over this part of the line. In the event of an air raid on Hanover , the bridge was intended to enable the Linden people in particular to flee quickly from the aircraft and incendiary bombs to the opposite bank.

After the war and during the time of the British occupation zone , however, the floods of 1946 tore the wooden bridge with it. The city of Hanover then had a new wooden river crossing built for pedestrians at the same place in the same year, this time with heavy wooden beams. But despite its massive and now flood-proof design, the people of Nordstädter and Lindener were able to make the construction sway and sway for their pleasure by jumping back and forth. For the later President of Leibniz University, Erich Barke , who grew up in the nearby Velvetstrasse , the Leinau Bridge was a popular children's playground.

Sleeping Beauty Bridge

View from the former Leinehafen towards the dismantled Gerhard-Uhlhorn Church in Linden
The Sleeping Beauty Bridge after the vegetable battle in 2009

In 1959 the second Leinau Bridge was demolished and its wooden beams were used as cladding for the Sleeping Beauty Bridge , which was released in the same year on June 10, 1959, at its current location . Also in 1959, the 360-meter-long Bremer Damm overpass , the feeder from the Westschnellweg to Königsworther Platz , was opened.

The bridge finally got its fairy-tale name from the nearby family café called Sleeping Beauty in the recreation area, which was equipped with walking paths next to the feeder of the West Schnellweg and on both banks of the Leine and Ihme until the mid-1960s .

Dornröschenbrücke is the title of a song composed by the chansonnier Wulf Hühn .

Web links

Commons : Dornröschenbrücke (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Archival material

Archives about the Leinau bridges or the Sleeping Beauty Bridge can be found, for example

  • in the city ​​archive of Hanover under the title Leinaubrücke from the civil engineering office as "Correspondence about the reconstruction of the bridge destroyed by a flood" from the period from May 7, 1945 to 1952, archive material signature StadtA H 1 NR 6 07 No. 129

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f o.V. : Fairy tales and rotten vegetables / The Sleeping Beauty Bridge ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the hannover.de website , last accessed on December 27, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Dornröschenbrücke , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 63
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Hochwasser 1946. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 301.
  4. ↑ above: Closing campaign “Linden scrapbook” . In: Hans-Erich Wiesemann (ed.): Lindenspiegel . April 2009, ISSN  1866-7562 , p. 2 ( online [PDF; 1.3 MB ]).
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1959. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 247ff .; here: p. 248
  6. ^ Georg Barke : Walks am Wasser , in ders .: progress 1960 - 1964. Hanover - 4 years council work , published by the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Steinbock Verlag, 1964, p. 76; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Compare Wulf Hühn: Sleeping Beauty Bridge as a video clip on youtube.com
  8. ↑ Compare StadtA H 1 NR 6 07 No. 129 on the website of the Lower Saxony archives information system ( arcinsys.niedersachsen.de )

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 42.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 34.5"  E