Bridge at the waterfall

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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 24 ″  E

Bridge at the waterfall
Bridge at the waterfall
use Foot and cycle bridge
Subjugated Old Elbe
place Magdeburg
construction Cable-stayed bridge
overall length 232.5 m
width 3.6 m
Longest span 72 m
completion December 1997
location
Bridge at the waterfall (Saxony-Anhalt)
Bridge at the waterfall

The bridge at the waterfall spans the Old Elbe in Magdeburg and connects the Cracau district to the east with the Rotehornpark to the west , which is on the Elbe island of Großer Werder . The structure stands about 70 m below the Cracauer weir, which is also called Cracauer Waterfall . After around a year of construction, the foot and cycle bridge was opened to traffic on December 1, 1997.

The total length of 232.5 m consists of a western, 37.5 m long foreland bridge made of reinforced concrete and a 195 m long cable-stayed bridge with main girders made of glued wood . In the main opening above the Old Elbe, the single-hip cable-stayed bridge has a span of 72 m.

The laminated wood construction bridges the Elbe with four reinforced concrete pillars. The eastern main pillar carries the 35 m high, steel pylon , which is inclined towards the river. The A-shaped pylon has two rope levels. At the top of the pylon, six pairs of steel cables are guyed in a fan-like manner towards the main opening and five pairs of cables towards the secondary opening.

The 3.6 m superstructure of the river bridge has a trough cross-section with 2.0 m high main girders arranged on both sides. The main girders consist of glued larch boards and are connected to one another by cross frames made of steel on which the roadway is arranged.

On May 9, 1992, Torsten Lamprecht, then 23, died near the bridge in an attack by 50 neo-Nazis on a party of young leftists and punks . In memory of this act, the bridge should be named after the victim. Instead, the path leading to the bridge was named Torsten-Lamprecht-Weg in 2013.

literature

  • Ingelore Buchholz, Jürgen Buchholz: Magdeburg Elbbrücken (= State Capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg. Documentations 40, ZDB -ID 1222115-6 ). State Capital Magdeburg, Office for Public Relations and Protocol, Magdeburg 2005, p. 134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.bauko.bau.tu-dresden.de Civil engineering projects 2: Pedestrian bridge at the Cracauer waterfall in Magdeburg ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 41 kB)
  2. Heike Kleffner : Where right-wing violence is rather suppressed. In: Zeit Online . March 22, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013
  3. Katja Tessnow: Torsten-Lamprecht-Weg will in future be reminiscent of a young victim of right-wing extremist violence. In: Volksstimme . May 7, 2013, accessed May 29, 2019 .