Castle Gate Bridge
The Burgtorbrücke is a street and bridge of the same name on the edge of Lübeck's old town .
location
The approximately 210 meter long Burgtorbrücke is located at the northernmost point of the old town island . It begins as an extension of the Große Burgstraße directly at the castle gate and runs towards the northeast. Immediately in front of the Burgtor, the Marstallweg joins from the west and the Ida-Boy-Ed-Garten from the east , before the street on the actual bridge spans the Kanalstrasse , then the Elbe-Lübeck Canal and on the other side of the canal the Brückenweg . Then the Fährstraße joins from the west , before the Burgtorbrücke meets and ends immediately on Gustav-Radbruch-Platz .
history
The Burgtorbrücke is located at the point where originally a narrow land connection between Wakenitz and Trave was the only permanent access to the city hill. In the course of the fortification of Lübeck according to the bastion system in the 17th century , this connection was cut by a fortress moat that connected the two rivers and a first bridge was built. During the fortification of the city, this ditch was filled in in 1805/1806 and the permanent connection between the Burgtor and Burgfeld was restored.
During the construction of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, the land connection was removed again in the winter of 1896/97, as the canal, which had taken the place of the Wakenitz along the east side of the old town, merged into the Trave. 1898 Burgtorbrücke was built, a three-arched steel Gerber beam - truss bridge . The re-established road connection was dedicated for the first time as an independent road and named after the bridge over which it leads.
Structural features
At the abutment on the city side , next to the canal roads, the cornerstone of the Elbe-Trave canal marked with a decorative plate is embedded. At the north end of the bridge, towards Burgfeld, two lion statues , created by Fritz Behn in 1913 for the wine merchant Heinrich Leo Behncke and erected there in 1931 , are placed on pedestals .
literature
- Sven Bardua; Forgotten technology . Steintor-Verlag, Lübeck 1997. ISBN 3-9801506-3-1
Web links
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Bridge Status Report 2008 (PDF; 1.7 MB)
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 28.9 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 30.5" E