Möckern Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 56 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 49 ″ E
| Möckern Bridge | ||
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 in the background the Möckernbrücke underground station |
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Möckernstrasse | |
| Crossing of | Landwehr Canal | |
| Subjugated | U-Bahn (elevated railway viaduct) | |
| place | Berlin-Kreuzberg | |
| construction | old: sandstone, new: reinforced concrete bridge with arch under the roadway | |
| overall length | 34.4 m | |
| width | approx. 20 m | |
| Longest span | 16 m | |
| completion | 1899, 1954 new building | |
| planner | Friedrich Krause, Ludwig Hoffmann (1899) | |
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The Möckernbrücke in the district Kreuzberg of Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg leading the Möckernstraße between Halleschem banks and Tempelhofer Ufer at kilometer 5.4 on the Landwehr Canal . In turn, it is crossed by the viaduct of the subway, which is designed as an elevated railway .
Surname
The name of the bridge refers to Möckernstrasse , in the course of which the Möckernbrücke lies. In the course of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg near Möckern defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in October 1813 . The name of the bridge took place at the end of the 19th century.
history
The Möckern Bridge was built in the years 1898–1899 by Friedrich Krause and Ludwig Hoffmann as a single-arched sandstone bridge. It had a span of 16 m and replaced a wooden bascule bridge that had existed since 1848 . As jewelry, she wore a frieze designed by the sculptor Otto Lessing .
The old sandstone bridge was destroyed in the Second World War , and a prestressed concrete bridge took its place in 1954 . It has 4.6 m wide footpaths on both sides, the 10 m wide carriageway has a lane in each direction .
Between 2004 and 2009, the Waterways and Shipping Office commissioned a comprehensive renovation of the canal bank in the area of this and other bridges over the Landwehr Canal in six construction phases over a length of 11 km by installing new sheet piles .
Surroundings
Both the Hochbahnbrücke and the Hallesche-Tor-Brücke very close to this building are listed as historical monuments . Numerous residential apartment buildings in Möckernstrasse are also noteworthy in their Wilhelminian style architecture and are included in the Berlin list of monuments . The Tempelhof-Kreuzberg district court is also a monument complex that is well worth seeing . One of the barrier-free main entrances to the park at Gleisdreieck, which opened on September 2, 2011, is located southwest of the bridge .
