Benno Ohnesorg Bridge

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Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge after its renovation from 2008-2013

The Benno Ohnesorg Bridge is a road bridge over the Ihme in Hanover . The building connects Calenberger Neustadt at the corner of Gustav-Bratke-Allee , Humboldtstraße and Adolfstraße with the Linden-Mitte district and the local road network on the Black Bear , in particular Deisterstraße and Blumenauer Straße . It stands in the place of what is probably the oldest and, for centuries, only bridge connection to Linden and further into the Calenberger Land .

history

View from linden trees to the wooden bridge to Hanover on the copper engraving by Merian after Conrad Buno from 1654 (subsequently colored)
On the left the classicist villa built by Laves in Linden at the old bridge over the river Ihmebrücke; on the right the mechanical weaving mill in place of the later Ihmezentrum , 1890
View from the "Ihmenbrücke" with the house of the Söhlmann tannery (left) and the chimneys of industrialization on the Glocksee shore;
Postcard no. 128 , so-called moonlight card from Friedrich Astholz junior
View from Peter-Fechter -ufer on the bridge before its renovation from 2008, on top of a light rail train

At the time of the principality of Calenberg, the carpenter Hans Behnsen and the master bricklayer Hans Behre built a wooden bridge over the Ihme in 1603. This "probably" took place in the place of older predecessors, a bridge is said to have been mentioned in writing for the first time in 1493. At this point in time, the volume of water from the Ihme had already been greatly increased by the Schnellen Graben, which was first mentioned in 1449 . The bridge could still be seen after the Thirty Years War in 1654 on an engraving by Merian after Conrad Buno . After Eisgang destroyed the wooden structure in 1658, an emergency bridge was built , which was replaced by a stone arched bridge on four river piers between 1696 and 1698 during the time of the Electorate of Hanover . The mechanic Georg Sigismund Schmid was commissioned in 1695 to plan and build the 14-meter-long and ten-meter-wide stone bridge.

At the beginning of the 19th century, in the first years of the Kingdom of Hanover , the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , who was employed as city ​​planner of Hanover , built his first own, classicist house directly on the Ihmebrücke from 1819 to 1822 . It was created on a piece of land that he had acquired from the factory owner Georg Egestorff . Before the start of industrialization, Laves lived directly at the entrance to Linden, the “most beautiful village” in the kingdom at the time.

The soon-to-be "largest village in Prussia " was granted city rights after the German Empire was proclaimed in 1885 . However, the growing volume of traffic on the Ihmebrücke up to this early days was relieved for the first time in 1890 by a second Ihme crossing; the spinning bridge built in 1890 near the kitchen garden .

Almost two decades later, the floods of 1909 damaged the Ihmebrücke so badly that it was demolished and replaced by a new one from 1910 to 1912; a 46-meter-long composite steel structure as a two-span bridge with a pillar in the middle of the river. But this construction method became one of the causes of the worst flood disaster in the history of Hanover: After the Nazi era , 700,000 gasoline cans of the British occupation troops had been washed away from the nearby Schützenplatz to the narrow points at the Ihme and “Glockseebrücke” bridges. Last but not least, the pillar of the bridge over the river Ihmebrücke blocked the way for the drifting canisters. The water level rose up to three meters in the streets, which were often already destroyed by the air raids on Hanover . The flood disaster of 1946 cost three people their lives, caused "huge damage to property " - and was solely responsible in the Hanover City Archives for the fact that "80% of the history of the city in the 19th century was lost".

In the early 1970s, the runway for the operation of the new light rail was widened for the first time. In 1992 the Ihmebrücke was renamed Benno-Ohnesorg-Brücke in memory of the Hanoverian Benno Ohnesorg who was shot by a police officer, Stasi IM and SED member during the West German student movement in the 1960s .

Due to the flood protection law passed in 2005, a 67-meter-long, wider new construction of the Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge was built from 2008 to 2013 in place of the previously listed bridge. The construction method was the same as before, but the supporting pillar was now placed on the eastern bank of the river. In addition, the bridge was built from steel girders by Zwickauer Sonderstahlbau GmbH according to the plans of the architects Schulitz und Partner with laterally curved shapes - similar to the banks of the Ihme. The Schwarzer Bär elevated platform of the Stadtbahn was also built on the bridge .

Media reports

  • Rüdiger Meise: Ihme crossing in Linden / New Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge in Hanover is taking shape. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . (HAZ), May 19, 2011 ( last accessed online on July 4, 2014)

literature

Web links

Commons : Benno-Ohnesorg-Brücke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Black Bear (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Knocke: Ihmebrücke (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c History of the Ihme Bridge at www.postkarten.archiv.de
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Schneller Graben. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 197 and others
  5. ^ Marianne Zehnpfennig : GLF Laves, Hanover, Laves I house, formerly Deisterstraße 2, 1819–1821. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hanover / Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century. Revised new edition of the catalog for the exhibition “From the castle to the train station, building in Hanover”… Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 469ff.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 406ff.
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Flood 1946. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 301.
  8. ↑ Dirk Sarnes (responsible): History of the city archive / archive history on the hannover.de page , last accessed on July 4, 2014.
  9. ↑ Armin Fuhrer: Who shot Benno Ohnesorg? The Kurras case and the Stasi. Be.bra, Berlin / Brandenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89809-087-2 .
  10. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Ohnesorg Benno. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 275; online through google books
  11. ↑ Rüdiger Meise: Ihme-Querung ... (see section media reports )

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 5.4 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 16.5"  E