Cathedral Bridge (Wroclaw)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 53 ″  N , 17 ° 2 ′ 32 ″  E

Cathedral Bridge
Cathedral Bridge
Official name most Tumski
use footbridge
Crossing of Or
place Wrocław / Breslau
construction Cantilever bridge
overall length 52.19 m
width 6.8 m
Number of openings two
Longest span 25.19 and 25.93 m
start of building 1888
completion 1890
planner Alfred von Scholtz
location
Cathedral Bridge (Wroclaw) (Poland)
Cathedral Bridge (Wroclaw)

The Cathedral Bridge (Polish: most Tumski , also most Katedralny ) connects the sand island ( Wyspa Piasek ) in Wroclaw across the right arm of the Oder with the city ​​district still called Cathedral Island ( Ostrów Tumski ) (the beginning of the 19th century with the right River bank).

history

The first written mention of a wooden bridge at this point dates back to the 12th century. The bridge was the border between the area of ​​influence of the city administration and that of the Wroclaw bishop. During a procession on Palm Sunday 1423, the wooden bridge collapsed and many people drowned. Over the centuries it has been renewed several times, in the 19th century at times as a wooden bascule bridge .

The current bridge was built between 1888 and 1890. It was first built on a stone pillar with a wrought iron superstructure. In 1893, the stone figures of St. Hedwig and John the Baptist created by Gustav Grunenberg were erected.

The bridge was slightly damaged during the Battle of Wroclaw in World War II . The damage was repaired at the end of 1945. In 1976 the bridge was added to the city's monument register. The bridge was last renovated in 1992.

  • Historic photo from 1890

  • View of the Cathedral Bridge towards Cathedral Island with the St. Peter and Paul Church and the Kreuzkirche in the background

  • The bridge with the two statues of St. Hedwig and John the Baptist

  • Night view of the bridge

description

The planning drawn up under the direction of the city planning officer Alfred von Scholtz was based on the competition entry submitted by Heinrich Gottfried Gerber for the Mannheim Neckar Bridge ( Friedrichsbrücke ), which had been published in 1887, with the middle of the three openings there omitted and the supporting structure on the only two openings The cathedral bridge was adapted with slightly shorter spans. In addition, it had to be taken into account that the bridge runs diagonally over the arm of the Oder and therefore does not form a rectangle but a parallelogram in the ground plan . The stone pillar, which occupies the entire width of the bridge, is therefore not at right angles to the roadway, but parallel to the bank walls in the course of the current.

The superstructure is reminiscent of a chain bridge , but is a cantilever bridge with wrought iron trusses . The iron parts were manufactured in the Pielahütte near Rudziniec ( Rudziniec ) near Gleiwitz ( Gliwice ) and transported to Wroclaw via the Klodnitz Canal (Kanał Kłodnicki). The bridge is 52.19 m long, its two openings have spans of 25.19 m and 25.93 m. It is completely open at the top, only the peaks in the middle of the bridge are connected by a cross bracing made of half-timbering, which for architectural reasons was designed in the form of a curved portal. The width of the bridge is generally given as 6.8 m. It is closed to general vehicle traffic.

In 1992 it was completely renovated. The original Zoresis iron that supported the road surface was replaced by orthotropic plates .

literature

  • Klaus Klöppel: Breslau - Lower Silesia and its millennial capital. Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89794-256-1 , pp. 94-95

Web links

Commons : Dombrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (o. Author.): Competition for the design of a permanent road bridge over the Neckar near Mannheim. Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume VII, No. 45 (from November 5, 1887), p. 430 ( digitized version ); No. 46 (of November 12, 1887), p. 436 (with side tears) ( digitized version ); No. 47 (of November 19, 1887), p. 447 ( digitized version ); No. 48 (of November 26, 1887), p. 459 ( digitized version ); No. 49 (of December 3, 1887), p. 479 ( digitized version), each on opus kobv.de
  2. ↑ The newly built cathedral bridge in Breslau . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume X, No. 27 (from July 5, 1890), p. 280 ( Miscellaneous ) ( digitized on opus kobv.de)
  3. ↑ v.Sch: The Cathedral Bridge in Breslau . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume XXIV, No. 54 (from July 5, 1890), p. 328 ( miscellaneous ) ( digitized on opus kobv.de; PDF 10.44 MB)