Hitchhiker's footbridge

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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 44 ″  E

Hitchhiker's footbridge
Hitchhiker's footbridge
Anhalter Steg, U-Bahn viaduct of line 1 , in the background the German Museum of Technology Berlin
use pedestrian
Crossing of Landwehr Canal
place Berlin , district of Kreuzberg
Building number S0010302
overall length 75 m
width 4.50 m
building-costs 3 million DM
start of building 1999
completion 2001
planner Benedict Tonon
location
Anhalter Steg (Berlin)
Hitchhiker's footbridge

The Anhalter Steg is a pedestrian bridge over the Landwehr Canal in Berlin-Kreuzberg between the Möckernbrücke and Schöneberger Brücke . Since February 2001 it has been connecting the grounds of the German Museum of Technology in Berlin with the Hallesches Ufer opposite to the site of the former Anhalter Bahnhof .

history

Previous bridge of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway

The construction of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway led to the construction of a railway bridge over the shipping canal at the location of today's pedestrian bridge. This four-track bridge was partially destroyed in World War II. The scheduled train service at the Anhalter Fernbahnhof was discontinued on May 18, 1952. After that, the remaining bridges were only used internally. In 1972 the railway bridges were excavated and scrapped.

As early as the 1980s, the Berlin Senate considered building a bicycle and pedestrian bridge at this point. The extensive expansion of the technology museum in the 1990s gave these plans new impetus. After investigations and expert opinions of the existing remains, the assembly of the bridge parts transported on the Landwehr Canal began on September 28, 2000. The construction on the foundations of the historic railway bridge , completed in February 2001, cost around three million marks, which DaimlerChrysler Immobilien GmbH took as a compensation measure for Development of Potsdamer Platz had been provided.

The historical middle section from the Marschallbrücke

construction

The bridge was built according to designs by the Berlin architect Benedict Tonon . It consists of three fields, each 25 meters long. The middle field is formed from the former central part of the Marschall Bridge, which was renewed from 1997 to 1999 due to the state and conditions for shipping on the Spree. Tonon was also involved in the planning of the Marschall Bridge. This old middle section is a wrought-iron, riveted two-hinged truss arch , the width of which has been reduced to four and a half meters compared to the original width of the Marschall Bridge. It is covered with wooden planks. The two outer fields are welded steel structures with an asphalt surface.

In the middle part, the concrete pillars are clad in yellow clinker brick as a reminiscence of the Berlin building tradition . In the upper part, the sculptural wordings "ANHALT" and "BERLIN" remind of the former function of the bridge connection for the Berlin-Anhalt Railway.

environment

Immediately to the south is the German Museum of Technology and the former freight yard of the Anhalter Bahnhof. In the north, on the site of the former Anhalter passenger station, the new Tempodrom was built and the Elise Tilse Park laid out.

From the old railway systems of the Anhalter Passenger Station, there are still remains of the platforms and track troughs outside the former hall, which are covered by ruderal vegetation. This area has been redesigned into a green area. The old platform edges were partially bricked up again. The embankment and enclosure walls to Halleschen Ufer and Möckernstrasse were also rebuilt with yellow clinker bricks.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anhalter Steg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of assembly Anhalter Steg . stadtentwicklung.berlin.de, accessed on November 1, 2012
  2. Anhalter Steg. Bridge to the past. Route via Landwehr Canal opened / on foot from the new Tempodrom to the technology museum . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tagesspiegel.de , February 2, 2001  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.tagesspiegel.de