Old Harburg Elbe Bridge
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 42 ″ E
| Old Harburg Elbe Bridge | ||
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| Convicted | Hannoversche Strasse / Georg-Wilhelm-Strasse | |
| Crossing of | South Elbe | |
| place | Hamburg-Harburg and Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg | |
| construction | Steel arch bridge | |
| overall length | 474 m | |
| start of building | 1897 | |
| opening | 1899 | |
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The Old Harburg Elbe Bridge is a steel arch bridge that connects the Hamburg districts of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg across the Süderelbe .
The basis for the construction was a contract between the Prussian province of Hanover and Hamburg. The MAN Gustavsburg built the bridge from April 1897 construction management was current building director Georg Narts . The portals made of Porta sandstone were designed by the Hanoverian architect Hubert Stier , who designed the town hall ( Palacio Municipal ) of La Plata (Argentina) and the station buildings in Bremen, Hanover and Harburg. With the Wilhelmsburg and Harburg coats of arms they were intended to remind of city gates and were previously decorated with the imperial eagle.
The bridge was opened on September 30, 1899 by Kaiser Wilhelm II . It connected the then still Prussian cities of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg and was originally built for pedestrians and carriages. The 474 m long steel arch bridge was the first road bridge over the Süderelbe and was also used by the tram between Hamburg and Harburg until the early 1970s . Today it is only used by pedestrians and cyclists, today car traffic runs over the bridge of June 17th (until 1964 Neue Harburger Elbbrücke ) and Europabrücke .
Originally the paths for pedestrians and cyclists ran along the outside of the bridge, but they were dismantled in the course of a thorough renovation between 1980 and 1995. The former route of the tram tracks can still be seen in the paving at the south portal.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ HPA information board 16 on the harbor adventure route at the Harburg portal
- ^ The new Elbe bridge between Hamburg and Harburg . In: The Gazebo . Issue 23, 1899, pp. 739 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).