Mayor Smidt Bridge
The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke leads in the center of Bremen over the Weser from the old town to the new town.
From the north the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße leads past the Am Brill square with the Martinistraße and the Hutfilter- / Obernstraße , along the Langenstraße and the Schlachte to the bridge. From the south, the Bremer Neustadt is connected to the bridge by Langemarckstraße past the Teerhof and also bridges the Kleine Weser .
Tram line 1, various bus lines and private transport cross the bridge.
history
The first Weser crossing in Bremen existed in 1244; since 1841 the Great Weser Bridge . A little later, a second small Weser bridge was built below the Great Weser Bridge, popularly known as the Börsenbrücke . Down the Weser, the railway bridge followed in 1865/66, which could also be used by pedestrians.
In 1869 planning began for a new bridge over the Weser. From 1872 to 1875 the Kaiserbrücke - the predecessor of today's Mayor Smidt Bridge - was built for the newly laid out large street from the main train station to the Große Allee in Neustadt. In the old town, the breakthrough in Kaiserstraße (today Mayor-Smidt-Straße ) was necessary, thus dividing medieval Langenstraße. This first bridge was a parallelgurtige iron truss construction and spanned in a plurality Jochen 224 meters at 8.50 meters in width.
When the first bridge was no longer able to cope with the increased demands, a second Kaiserbrücke was planned and built from 1913 to 1916 . The steel arch bridge with a central pillar was designed by the bridge construction workshop of Friedrich Krupp AG and executed by them in cooperation with the Düsseldorf steel construction company Hein, Lehmann & Co. The artistic advisor, especially for the side bridge gates, was the architect Emil Högg , then director of the Bremen Trade Museum. The ticket office of the Schreiber shipping company was located near the bridge on the Schlachte promenade in the 1920s .
The bridge was blown up on April 25, 1945 towards the end of World War II ; Recovery attempts failed. In the ice disaster on the Weser from March 16 to 18, 1947, not only was the temporary Truman Bridge near the Martinikirche destroyed, but also the lifting towers for the reconstruction of the Kaiserbrücke. All traffic connections from the old town to the new town were interrupted again.
The reconstruction of the bridge was planned since 1947; it was not until 1950 that the building commission decided on the new building. The new flat steel bridge was built between 1951 and 1952, inaugurated on June 28, 1952 by Wilhelm Kaisen and named after Mayor Johann Smidt as the Mayor Smidt Bridge . It was designed according to plans by Friedrich Schumacher and Fritz Brandt.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Karl Marten Barfuß , Hartmut Müller , Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 1: 1945-1969. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .
- Harry Schwarzwälder : The Weser Bridges in Bremen. Fate 1939–1948 . Bremen 1968.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BSAG line network - bus and tram in Bremen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 14, 2018 ; accessed on November 14, 2018 . 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 55 ″ E