Cornelius Bridge (Munich)

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Cornelius Bridge, in the background the German Museum
Cornelius Bridge, in the background the European Patent Office
Cornelius Bridge with King Ludwig Monument in the middle in the foreground, behind the Reichenbach Bridge and the Church of St. Maximilian

The Cornelius Bridge is an arch bridge over the Isar in Munich , which was named in 1903 after the painter Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867) and after his nephew, the composer and poet Peter Cornelius (1824–1874). It connects the Isar suburb on the left of the Isar with the Au on the right of the Isar. The bridge “touches” the Museum Island at its southern end. For a few years there has been public access from the bridge to the island.

Since 1910 there was a King Ludwig monument on the west side of the Cornelius Bridge , the bronze figure and stone niche of which were removed in 1942 and 1969 respectively. In 2014, a citizens' initiative was founded for the reconstruction of the monument, which the city council decided in July 2018 in a simplified form as a "romantic ruin".

History and technical data

The Cornelius Bridge was part of the bridge construction program offered by the construction company Sager & Woerner . The bridge was designed by Friedrich von Thiersch , and Sager & Woerner was responsible for the design and construction. Construction began in the summer of 1902. A three-hinged arch made of shell limestone blocks with a clear width of 44 meters spans the main arm of the Isar. The side arm is bridged by two further three-hinged concrete arches with a clear width of 38.5 meters each, which are clad with shell limestone. On August 26, 1902, during construction, the eastern of the two smaller arches collapsed shortly before its completion. The accident resulted in two deaths and numerous workers injured. It was therefore opened to traffic on October 6, 1903 without any celebrations. The statue of Ludwig II on the ledge between the large and the two smaller bridge arches was made by Ferdinand von Miller and was only unveiled on June 19, 1910.

King Ludwig Monument

In order to build a monument to King Ludwig II , Munich citizens founded an association in 1899, the patron of which was Prince Regent Luitpold . As the number of members and donations increased, the association and the magistrate agreed on the location on the Cornelius Bridge, which at that time was the only Isar crossing without sculptures. First, the architect Michael Dosch created a design for the 11-meter-high stone niche, which the city planning officer Hans Grässel revised. Then the ore caster Ferdinand von Miller made the approximately 3.20 meter high bronze figure. On June 19, 1910, Prince Regent Luitpold finally unveiled the completed monument.

In 1942 the bronze figure was removed by the National Socialists and melted down to the head for war purposes. The head was placed in the National Theater in 1963 , but the stone niche on the Cornelius Bridge was dismantled in 1969 and deposited in the town's stone warehouse. In 2013, around 470 individual parts of the stone niche were rediscovered there, which corresponds to around 97 percent of the total monument. A year later, a citizens' initiative for the reconstruction of the monument was launched, which the city ​​council decided in July 2018 in a simplified form as a "romantic ruin".

literature

  • Christoph Hackelsberger: Munich and its Isar bridges . Hugendubel Heinrich, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-88034-107-4 .
  • Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: Construction Department of the City of Munich. Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 (building bridges from the foundation of the city to today).
  • Dietmar Schulze: Ludwig II. - Monuments of a fairy tale king. Volk Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86222-006-9 .

  • Isar panorama from the Cornelius Bridge

Web links

Commons : Corneliusbrücke (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fs-stein-muenchen.de/exkursion-das-städtische-steinlager
  2. ↑ https://www.ludwig-denkmal.de
  3. ↑ https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/SITZUNGSVORLAGE/5019920.pdf

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 42.5 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 48.4 ″  E