Old Geeste Bridge
The Alte Geestebrücke is a swing bridge in Bremerhaven - Geestemünde on Fährstraße. It has been running across the Geeste since 1904 .
history
In 1845 the port construction began on the south bank of the Geeste. The newly created harbor town was named Geestemünde in 1847. Below the present Geeste Bridge wrong in the 19th century an old barge ferry . This could no longer cope with the increasing passenger and wagon traffic. A commission therefore advocated the construction of a bridge. From 1856 to January 8, 1857, the Ministry of the Interior in the Kingdom of Hanover had a two-wing swing bridge with a clearance of 56 feet (1 foot = 29.2 cm in Hanover, i.e. 16.36 m) built. "The bridge had no superstructures and its appearance is very reminiscent of the canal bridge in Geestemünde, which was built around the same time."
Today's new old Geestebrücke was built in 1904 by the M. Achgelis Söhne company according to plans by the government master builder Schubert for the Geestemünde hydraulic engineering inspection .
The truss bridge in a broken steel structure leads from Geestemünde to the Bremerhaven-Mitte district . In the case of the non-parallel- chord framework , the lower chord and the upper chord, which is up to seven meters above it, are connected by vertical and inclined lattice girders in the form of a lattice bridge. In the transverse direction, girders and diagonal bracing span the bridge.
The steel portal on the northwest side is adorned with two coats of arms from Bremen - the state coat of arms and the city coat of arms of Bremerhaven at that time (see coat of arms on the right). To the side of it, the Roter Sand lighthouse and a steamship of the North German Lloyd are also shown.
The horse tram ran over this bridge from 1881 to 1908 and then the tram line 2 of the Bremerhaven AG (VGB) transport company until 1982 . Tram line 3 only used the bridge until 1964.
Today, the Geeste is crossed by two lanes and two pedestrian paths outside the supporting structure.
The Busse memorial at the Alte Geestebrücke was erected in 1936 based on a design by the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger in the style of late brick expressionism. It commemorates the commissioning of the fishing liner Sagitta by the shipowner Friedrich Busse in 1885.
In 1978 this old Geestebrücke was placed under monument protection.
literature
- Wolfgang Brönner : Bremerhaven. Architectural monuments of a port city . Bremen 1976.
- Dirk J. Peters : Movable bridges in Bremerhaven . Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star . Bremerhaven 1995.
- Dirk J. Peters: An anniversary on the Geeste. 100 year old Geestebrücke in Bremerhaven (1904–2004) . Low German Heimatblatt No. 659 (2004).
Individual evidence
- ^ Harry Gabcke : Bremerhaven in two centuries, 1827-1918 . Tape. I. NWD-Verlag, Bremerhaven 1992.
- ↑ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven's route networks since 1881 (PDF; 2.1 MB) bremerhavenbus.de, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 25 ″ N , 8 ° 35 ′ 9 ″ E