Adlerbrücke (Wuppertal)
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 22 ″ E
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Subjugated | Wupper | |
| place | Wuppertal - Barmen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) | |
| overall length | ~ 27.0 m | |
| width | ~ 9.0 m | |
| completion | 1868 | |
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| Above sea level | 154 m above sea level NHN | |
The Adlerbrücke is a road bridge over the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Barmen .
construction
- Adlerbrücke with station, after 1900
South side
East Side
North side
Looking east
The wrought iron lattice girder bridge from 1868 connects the street Unterdörnen north of the Wupper with the southern left bank of the river with the street Friedrich-Engels-Allee , which it meets at the level of the historical center with the Barthels house and the Engels house . It is located near Adlerstrasse , which joins Unterdörnen from the north . The first iron bridge over the Wupper, including a new bulwark, cost 12,000 thalers to be built and is now a listed building .
The superstructure of the bridge is designed as a steel framework construction with external main girders, which were worked as multi-part lattice girders. In between there were cross members that were integrated into the vertical cross members. Rolled steel profiles serve as longitudinal beams; Cross girders and main girders are cross sections riveted together from angle profiles and sheet metal. The span of the bridge is 26.4 meters, its width between the main girders is 8.44 meters. There is a wooden plank covering under the asphalt surface. On the battlements of the four original cornerstone of greywacke each stood a cast-iron eagle. The bird figures disappeared at the beginning of the Second World War and were probably melted down and used in war production.
The eagle bridge is next to the dog bridge in Essen-Kupferdreh the last remaining example of a lattice girder bridge in the Rhineland . This type of wrought iron bridge was very common between 1850 and 1870, especially on the first railway lines on the Rhine and its tributaries. There were also several lattice girder bridges over the Wupper. The oldest still existing large bridges of this type include the (fragmentarily preserved) Weichselbrücke Dirschau , which was the model for the first Rhine bridge, the cathedral bridge in Cologne (1859–1913), and the Rhine bridge Waldshut – Koblenz . Today there are only a few bridges of this early design left in Germany.
The adjoining station Adlerbrücke of the Wuppertal suspension railway of the same name is named after this bridge. It was put into operation in 1903.
Decay, closure and redevelopment (2000-2017)
The Adlerbrücke has been considered a renovation case since 2000. As a result, car traffic was restricted to one lane in a southerly direction with a maximum speed of 10 km / h and a gross vehicle weight of 3.5 tons. From August 2010, the bridge was completely closed after a routine check revealed damage to the roadway. The extent of the damage became clearer during the subsequent inspection of the overpass on August 10th. Rotten wooden planks under the asphalt of the bridge were the reason for the subsurface to sag by around ten centimeters.
According to initial estimates, the cost of renovating the bridge was around 580,000 euros. Due to its poor budget situation, the city of Wuppertal considered demolishing the ailing bridge, for which it estimated costs of 50,000 to 70,000 euros. From then on, when crossing the Wupper, pedestrian traffic was to pass via the adjacent suspension railway station, which was newly built in 1999 as part of a modernization of the suspension railway.
In public, there were increasing votes for the preservation of the Adlerbrücke, which was joined by representatives of parliamentary groups represented in the city council, such as the voter community for Wuppertal , the SPD and the Greens . The specially founded association IG Adlerbrücke called for donations and was able to collect enough donation commitments in a short time to cover the city's own contribution to finance the renovation. Of the 780,000 euros in renovation costs, around 683,000 euros were eligible for funding. After corresponding funding applications, 300,000 euros came from the Federal Monument Protection Special Program IV, 150,000 euros from the Monument Funding Program of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and 156,000 euros from the German Foundation for Monument Protection . After the financing had been secured, the renovation started in December 2015.
On August 3, 2017, the Adlerbrücke was reopened for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The “obscure and oversized district heating pipes” on the east side of the bridge, criticized by the German Foundation for Monument Protection as “insensitive line routing”, were laid in 2018 by the operator of Wuppertaler Stadtwerke , which enabled the bridge to regain its original appearance.
New Eagles (2019)
On October 12, 2019, two eagles weighing 140 kilograms and 85 × 100 centimeters in size found their place on the south side of the bridge, facing Friedrich-Engels-Allee. They were cast in China according to the original molds and have since stood on 3.25 meter high, neo-Gothic columns with crenellated wreaths made in the Netherlands. The Adler was financed without the use of public funds. Numerous sponsors had raised more than 40,000 euros for this.
On November 15, 2019, a small fireworks display took place to inaugurate the bridge.
Web links
- Walter Buschmann's entry on Adlerbrücke between Unterdörnen and Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Barmen in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association (from the report on the importance of the monument)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Barmer problem children. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 5, 2010.
- ↑ Category Archives: History, Chronicle up to 1799. In: 200 Years of City Rights for Barmen, February 7, 2010.
- ↑ Klaus Peter Huttel: Wuppertal image documents. A history book on the 19th century. In pictures and text. 1985, ISBN 3-87093-007-1
- ↑ Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- ↑ a b Adlerbrücke in Wuppertal receives support from Bonn. In: altertuemliches.at of October 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Joachim Macheroux: New eagles for the bridge. In: Wuppertaler Rundschau from January 14, 2016.
- ↑ Entry on the dog bridge in Kupferdreh in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on February 15, 2017.
- ↑ Dog bridge in the Deilbachtal. In: The early mining of the Ruhr. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ The source writes precisely: "Has been a case of renovation for ten years:"
- ↑ Adlerbrücke is now threatened with permanent closure. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 10, 2010.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke closed to car traffic. ( Memento from January 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Information from the city of Wuppertal from August 4, 2010.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke is closed. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 4, 2010.
- ↑ Demolition: The Eagle Bridge can no longer be saved. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 12, 2010.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke closed - suspension railway station becomes a pedestrian crossing. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 16, 2010.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke: Politics intervenes. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 15, 2010.
- ^ Adlerbrücke: SPD demands a report on the condition of the buildings. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from 23 August 2010.
- ↑ Demolition of a historical gem - or just scrap? In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 13, 2010.
- ↑ Support for Adlerbrücke is formed. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 18, 2010.
- ^ WZ TV: Eagle Bridge before the demolition. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from August 19, 2010.
- ↑ Renovation work on the Adlerbrücke is on schedule. (No longer available online.) Press office of the city of Wuppertal, February 5, 2016, archived from the original on January 8, 2017 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ construction work. Adlerbrücke can be used immediately. In: Wuppertaler Rundschau from August 3, 2017.
- ↑ Without district heating pipes, there will be a clear view of the Adler Bridge in future. In: wuppertal.de from October 20, 2017.
- ↑ a b "Final spurt" for the Adler Bridge. In: Wuppertaler Rundschau from June 11, 2019.
- ↑ The eagles landed at the eagle bridge. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of January 18, 2019.
- ↑ The eagles landed on the bridge. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of October 13, 2019.
- ↑ Monument one step further: Eagles can land. In: wdr.de from August 22, 2019.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke inaugurated with fireworks. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of November 17, 2019.