Überseebrücke

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The Überseebrücke as seen from the pontoon

The Überseebrücke is a facility in the Port of Hamburg with a covered pedestrian bridge that leads from the flood protection system on the Vorsetzen road to a pontoon in Hamburg's Niederhafen , at the level of the former Jonashafen , east of the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken .

The bridge was built in 1927 by the steel construction company HCE Eggers on behalf of the Hamburg Süd shipping company , called the Blockhausbrücke at the time , and served in particular as a landing stage for passenger ships to overseas . It was an almost 119-meter-long steel arch construction and thus reached into the sea-going waterway , with additional mooring albums in front of the pontoons so that large ships could moor there. During the Second World War , the bridge was destroyed, among other things because a floating crane rammed it. From 1957 to 1968 the renovation of the bridge was carried out, first of all the catwalks were temporarily hung in the girders, then the bridge was reassembled from old stocks of the Office for Electricity and Harbor Construction .

Overall, the Überseebrücke consists of five parts: The end structure at Vorsetzen was used in 1968 as the last and newest part. It is a wood-paneled entrance that houses a kiosk on the right and left. The elements of the movable bridge contact from the old pier of the ferry VII / St. Pauli Hafenstraße , which was not rebuilt after the war more, the built in 1898. Investors Fährkanal , which was badly damaged and at the shipyard Janssen & Schmilinsky was overhauled, as middle arch, and the former Worthdamm pier (today Arningstrasse ). The south end, also from the prewar period, was rammed by the Swedish naval ship Marieholm on June 8, 1961 and had to be replaced by a new building. Finally, the assembled parts were given a roof and side walls, with the east side open and the west side closed with Plexiglas panes and keeping out the weather , as well as lighting. The facility is designed as a pedestrian bridge, but is wide enough to allow delivery vehicles to access the pontoon. From 2012 to 2015, the bridge was extensively renovated in parallel to the redesign of the flood protection system on the Vorsetzen and received a new head structure.

  • The Überseebrücke around 1933

  • Head building of the Überseebrücke with two kiosks in the entrance area

  • The transition of the second part of the bridge, the old Hafenstrasse pier , to the middle arch

  • Detail of the bend, formerly the ferry canal pier

  • Fourth part of the bridge, the former Worthdamm pier and a view of the south end

  • View of the southern end of the Überseebrücke from the pontoon

Museum ship Cap San Diego at the mooring of the Überseebrücke on the Norderelbe in Hamburg

The ferry to England and long-distance cruise ships ran from the Überseebrücke until the 1970s . Today it is mainly used as a berth for the museum ship Cap San Diego , and smaller cruise ships, warships from domestic and foreign fleets and active museum ships also moor here. During the harbor birthday, for example, historical sailing boats such as the Sedov call at it regularly .

literature

  • Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg · History of architecture and technology until 1945 . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 ; P. 121 f.

Web links

Commons : Überseebrücke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Port news of September 27, 2012 , accessed on March 19, 2016

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '32.8 "  N , 9 ° 58' 39"  E