Döppersberg Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '22 " N , 7 ° 8' 56" E
| Döppersberg Bridge | ||
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Pedestrian bridge former road bridge |
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| Convicted | Old freedom | |
| Subjugated | Wupper | |
| place | Wuppertal - Elberfeld ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) | |
| overall length | ~ 20.7 m | |
| width | ~ 16 m | |
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| Above sea level | 152 m above sea level NHN | |
The Döppersberger Brücke (also Wupperbrücke Alte Freiheit ) is a pedestrian bridge over the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld . As a former road bridge , it connects the Elberfeld inner city area with the Wuppertal main station on the eponymous Döppersberg . It is now integrated into the pedestrian zone, and the Alte Freiheit street leads over it .
topography
Former state of development
A first stone bridge was built between 1847 and 1862/63, with its three arches it spanned the Wupper. It led to the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) station on Döppers Berg, which opened in 1848. At the time, it was located a little outside the settlement area of the Elberfeld city center. Before that there was a wooden yoke bridge at this point .
The building, which was completed in 1862/63, represented a compromise in a long-term dispute between the BME and the city management. The dispute was about the continuously increasing expenses for the maintenance of two wooden bridges. The wooden bridges spanned the lowland and the floodplain, the Brausenwerth . The Döppersberger Bahnbrücke (then abbreviated to Bahnbrücke ) was 56.5 meters long and 11.9 meters wide. The maximum span of each bridge arch was 22 meters.
When the Bahnhofplatz was redesigned at the beginning of the 20th century, the Brausenwerth had been heaped up and the bank fortifications of the Döppersberg Bridge removed and the bridge over the Wupper was replaced by a reinforced concrete structure.
In 1901 the station “ Doppersberg ” was built on the bridge for the Wuppertal suspension railway , which was replaced in 1926 by the Köbo-Haus . The commercial building combined with the suspension railway station is the only building built over the Wupper.
Expansion status after the Second World War
After the Second World War , the Wuppertal valley axis was completely redesigned in the 1950s. Many houses were destroyed by the war and the generously dimensioned Bundesallee ( Bundesstrasse 7 ) was laid out. As an extension of the Alte Freiheit, the bridge led to the Döppersberg bus station and on to the Deutsche Bahn central station. Immediately at the southern end of the bridge, the path divides into a longer underpass that leads to the platforms of the bus station. At the end of the underpass, which was opened in 1961, you came to the main train station. On the other side, at the southern end of the bridge, the path led past the Köbo house. On April 8, 1968, the Döppersberger Bridge was included in the street naming of the Alte Freiheit.
Future state of development
With the redesign of the Döppersberg traffic junction from 2009, there will be a bridge again, starting from Alte Freiheit over the Wupper and also over the Bundesallee, which will lead to the train station.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Valeriy Golsheider: Bridges in Wuppertal Dehnel, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811352-5-1
- ↑ The information in the literature is contradictory, on the one hand there is written about a stone bridge that was completed in 1862/63. On the other hand, there are images of a stone bridge that are dated before 1862.
- ^ History of Döppersberg 1829–1883 ( Memento from February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ History Döppersberg 1829–1883 ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 2012
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
