Calenberg Bridge (Schulenburg)

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The Calenberg Bridge over the Leine, built in 1751 with the coat of arms of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland

The Calenberger Bridge in Schulenburg , also called Leinebrücke Calenberger Straße , is a monumental, massive bridge over the Leine . As one of the rare three-arch bridges , the monument was created along today's state road 460 at the time of the Electorate of Hanover in the middle of the 18th century and at the same time as part of the road from Gestorf via Schulenburg to Rössing, which was laid out under King George II .

History and description of the building

About the middle yoke has been Arms Stein of King George II. Let
The bridge over the Leine as a connection between the former Calenberg fortress and the Neu Calenberg estate ; Copy of a map made
by Joh. Christoph Ludewieg Clodius in 1771 ; "Signing off the lease items belonging to the Calenberg household"
In 2001 the UWG Schulenburg-Calenberg installed the "250 Years Leine Bridge" memorial board

While an older bridge - presumably near the mill in front of the fortress Calenberg - was first mentioned in a document during the Middle Ages in 1363 , the Leinebrücken had already collapsed twice at its current location. An old legend reports that when the Calenberg Bridge was being built, a human sacrifice "[...] was supposed to please the bridge devil" and therefore "[...] a living child was walled up in the middle pillar ".

In fact, originated in 1751, a roughly 42-meter-long massive bridge of sandstone - blocks with three elliptical Jochen between two river piers.

In the middle of Calenberger bridge upstream one was Arms Stein of King George II. Embedded with under the crown entwined initials of construction and sovereign G R II (George Rex II), although this because of the personal union between Britain and Hanover primarily in London was staying and has only visited his home country twelve times from there.

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At the end of the Second World War , the two citizens Conrad Kösel and Rudolf Ohlmer from Adensen wanted to prevent the Marienberg Bridge and the Schulenburg Leine Bridge from being blown up by German soldiers. When they came to Marienberg Bridge on April 6, 1945, it had already been blown up. Together with Hans Bremer , the owner of the Calenberger Mühle, they were able to prevent the Calenberg Bridge from being blown up. It had already been prepared for demolition, but the mill owner had invited the Volkssturm demolition unit to Vespers and fed the guests until the bridge was occupied by the Allies . During the return trip on the K 506 shortly before Adensen, the two citizens of Adens were shot by the approaching tanks of the US Army in their vehicle.

In 1990 the three-arch bridge was renovated and an inscription stone was placed on the structure to commemorate it .

A quarter of a millennium after the Leine crossing was built, the Independent Voting Association UWG Schulenburg-Calenberg eV had a stone inscription plaque installed in front of the bridge with the inscription

"250 years / Leine Brücke / 2001"

View from the bridge into the nature reserve downstream

The Calenberg Bridge was originally planned for horse-drawn carriage traffic and is so narrow that modern automobiles are now only allowed to cross the single lane individually and alternately in the direction regulated by a traffic light . Nevertheless, the monument has already suffered new damage, particularly from heavy goods traffic at the beginning of the 21st century. For many years , the local mayor of the city of Schools, Joachim Schneider, was committed to the preservation of the historic Leine crossing, especially by the state of Lower Saxony : the permissible speed was limited to 10 km / h, but according to Schneider, no one would adhere to this. The maximum permissible weight was also limited to 18 tons, "[...] but some modern trucks or agricultural vehicles would presumably exceed this weight" according to an interview with the mayor in 2014.

The Nordzucker factory in Nordstemmen

Actually allowed during the sugar beet - campaign the farmers with beet transports the crop to sugar factory in Nordstemmen want to drive, exceed 18 tons total load, then the road that not least "[...] by the heavy truck lowers again and again." The Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport , which regularly checks the stability of the historic three-arch bridge, determined 4,000 cars per day during a traffic count on the bridge. During an on-site meeting at the beginning of August 2016 - a few weeks before the local elections in Lower Saxony 2016 and at the invitation of Silke Lesemann , Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament - with Thorsten Krüger and Günter Kentsch , both also representatives of the (local) SPD , it was also determined again that to the "[...] speed limit probably no car or truck driver abides by".

Thorsten Krüger spoke out in favor of raising the railing on the historic masonry for safety for pedestrians and cyclists. However, previous ideas to protect the bridge itself, such as a blockage for trucks or the construction of a diversion through the landscape protection area to a new replacement bridge to be built, were declared by Silke Lesemann in August 2016 as "[...] regionally unrepresentable".

See also

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Web links

Commons : Leinebrücke Schulenburg (Calenberger Brücke)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

Inscription on the keystone on the valley side
  1. ↑ According to the local interpretation of the inscription on the valley-facing keystone of the bridge as a grave marker for a "nameless five-year-old gypsy boy". It is possible that children should also look closely at the bridge and discover that the three-arch bridge does not have a central pillar, so the legend is based on incorrect information.
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the use of lime sandstone is mentioned, compare Heiner Juergens, Carl Wolff, Arnold Nöldeke et al .: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover ; Part 29: I. District of Hanover , Vol. 3: The art monuments of the Springe district , Hanover: Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1941, pp. 33, 185 and others; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heiner Juergens, Carl Wolff, Arnold Nöldeke et al .: The art monuments of the province of Hanover ; Part 29: I. District of Hanover , Vol. 3: The art monuments of the Springe district , Hanover: Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1941, pp. 33, 185 and others; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c Henner Hannig (arrangement) et al., Gerd Weiß, Walter Wulf (ed.): Pattensen-Schulenburg. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ... , pp. 128f., 238–242; and Schulenburg / Stadt Pattensen , oaO, p. 308
  3. ↑ a b c d Kim Gallop: Schulenburg / Leinebrücke is regularly checked / The historic Leinebrücke in Schulenburg is regularly checked by the state for stability. This was assured by SPD MP Silke Lesemann on Tuesday at an on-site meeting. On the Since the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 2, 2016, updated on August 5, 2016, last accessed on September 14, 2016
  4. ↑ Peter Arnold, Henner-Ekkehard Kerl: Calenberg , in this .: 111 castles and manors in Lower Saxony , 3rd edition, Madsack Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1990, ISBN 3-7860-0032-8 , p. 110f.
  5. ↑ Compare this documentary photograph, for example
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Georg August, Elector of Hanover, as Georg II. King of Great Britain a. Ireland. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 210.
  7. ↑ Compare this documentary photograph, for example
  8. ↑ Compare the inscription panel with the additional shield (double click on the image to enlarge)
  9. ↑ Kim Gallop: Schulenburg. Schneider would like support for Leinebrücke ... on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from December 28, 2014, updated on December 31, 2014, last accessed on September 14, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 56.7 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 23.7"  E