Donnersbergerbrücke

View from the south side of the track field

The Donnersbergerbrücke is a road bridge in Munich over the tracks and over Landsberger Strasse and Arnulfstrasse. The S-Bahn stop of the same name is located between Hackerbrücke and Hirschgarten . The Donnersbergerbrücke is part of the middle ring .

location

The Donnersbergerbrücke is part of the west bypass of the middle ring. The Trappentreustraße leads from the south to the Donnersbergerbrücke that after the Landsberger Strasse , the tracks of the station apron to the central station and finally the Arnulfstraße has crossed into the Landshuterallee flows. The Donnersbergerbrücke thus connects the districts of Schwanthalerhöhe in the south and Neuhausen in the north and is located around two kilometers west of Munich Central Station.

View from the bridge towards the main train station, on the right the Central Tower Munich , on the left the S-Bahn station Donnersbergerbrücke

history

Crossing over the track field, in the background Central Tower Munich (left) and the former main customs office in Munich (right)

As the first crossing over the track, an iron walkway was built in 1874 for the workers of the Centralwerkstätte Munich , which was completed in the same year .

In 1900 a simple road bridge was built instead of the iron footbridge . It connected Trappentreustraße with Donnersbergerstraße , which in turn leads to Rotkreuzplatz . In 1912, the striking main customs office with a striking glass dome was built over a 180 m long warehouse and from then on served as a landmark on the bridge.

In the course of the National Socialist expansion of the city of Munich, the Donnersbergerbrücke was also rebuilt and inaugurated on December 18, 1935. As the western central section, this building is still part of today's bridge and can be easily recognized from below by the later new construction due to the different supports and girders (e.g. pedestrian underpass on the S-Bahn).

After the Mittlerer Ring was planned in the mid-1960s, it soon became clear that the west bypass with the easily expandable Landshuter Allee needed a corresponding continuation to the south. The Donnersbergerbrücke in the immediate vicinity was to be replaced by a partially new building. The most important difference to the bridge at that time, in addition to its almost three times larger width, was the pivoting of the northern bridgehead from Donnersbergerstrasse to Landshuter Allee, which ran parallel to the east. That is also the reason why the Donnersbergerbrücke does not go its "natural" route today, which led to Donnersbergerstrasse, but makes a small swivel direction east / north-east. This removed the misalignment of the middle ring on Arnulfstrasse.

Construction began in October 1969; the construction took place while the railway and private transport were in operation ; only the tram (line 22) over the bridge was finally closed in 1971. As a result, a lot of the work, especially the insertion of the prefabricated 44 prestressed concrete girders, had to be carried out at night, as the overhead line in the station apron of Munich Central Station could then be switched off. Major demolition work on residential buildings was necessary for the construction of the ramps, especially in Donnersbergerstrasse, Landshuter Allee and on the west side of Trappentreustrasse. The work continued until May 1972. The Donnersbergerbrücke was the last section of the Middle Ring to be completed in time for the 1972 Summer Olympics .

The bridge was hit by the enormous loads caused by individual traffic, and it had to be renovated several times.

Technical data 1972

Profiles

	Sidewalk (in m)	Bike path (in m)	Tree trench (in m)	Roadway (in m)	Schrammborde (in m)	Roadway (in m)	Median strip (in m)
Landshuter Allee	3.5	-	-	9.0	-	-	25.0
Overpass Arnulfstrasse	3.5	-	-	6.5	0.8 + / 1.75	10.5	2.0
Donnersbergerbrücke	3.5	-	-	19.0	-	-	2.0
Landsberger Strasse overpass	3.5	1.0 (1)	-	6.5	9.5 (2)	10.5	2.0
Trappentreustraße	3.5	1.0 (1)	3.0	9.0	-	-	2.0 / 4.5
Underpass at Heimeranplatz	1.84	-	-	6.86	2.02	3.88 (3)	-
Garmischer Strasse	3.0	1.4	2.0	9.0	-	-	1.6 / 4.2

Routing elements

North driveway

	Main roadway	ramp
Longitudinal slope max.	4.5%	5.6%
Cross slope max.	3.6%	2.0%
Incline max.	5.75%	5.95%
Curve radius min. (m)	319	306
Kuppenausrdg. min. (m)	1600	1000
Tub out. min. (m)	1200	500

Buildings

	Overpass			Pedestrian underpass
	Arnulfstrasse	Railway systems	Landsberger Strasse	Schlörstrasse	Westendstrasse
system	Box girder and precast girders			closed frame
Span (m)	45.0	48-35-30-30-28-49-39	27.77-29.23	6.12
Length (m)	Total bridge length including ramps: 1124.12			22.7-23-13.9	59.6
Width (m)	26.5	47.0	26.5	5.0
Construction thickness (m)	1.47	1.57 ÷ 1.67	1.45	0.5
Load capacity (t)	60

Crowds

	Road construction		Bridge building
Removal (m³)	42,000	Earthmoving (m³)	71,000
Filling (m³)	46,000	Poor quality concrete (m³)	4,300
Humus filling (m³)	5,000	Concrete 300 (m³)	11,000
		Concrete 450 (m³)	17,000
Road surface including bridge (m³)	87,000	Slack steel (t)	3,400
		Prestressing steel (t)	850

Roadways

The Donnersbergerbrücke has two separate lanes with four lanes each. In addition, u. a. Arnulfstrasse and Landsberger Strasse are connected to the Donnersbergerbrücke with ramps.

Expansion options

The planners of the Donnersbergerbrücke have planned two expansion options:

• At the level of the main customs office in Munich, the bridge will be a few meters wider. In a further expansion phase, the bridge structure was to be extended to Trappentreustraße, via Heimeranplatz , the Deutsche Bahn AG track system to Garmischer Straße . After the opening of the Trappentreutunnel in 1984 at the latest , this is no longer necessary.
• The south ramp is movable. In the case of a final construction as described above, it can be halved lengthways and attached to the aforementioned corners. The new bridge component for the extension would then have to be built between the ramp halves.

traffic

The Donnersbergerbrücke is one of the busiest routes in Europe. Therefore, the pollution with fine dust and nitrogen oxides is often above the permitted values.

Public transport : the On the Donnersbergerbrücke München Donnersbergerbrücke station , that of the S-Bahn Munich and the Bavarian Oberland Bahn is operated. Also MVG - bus routes serve the same station on the bridge.

Facilities in the immediate vicinity

The following facilities are in the immediate vicinity of the Donnersbergerbrücke

Public facilities

• Main customs office in Munich
• Westend industrial estate, u. a. with the film.coop of the Munich film workshop

Buildings

• Central Tower Munich

Deutsche Bahn AG

• Depot Munich Hbf
• Munich operations center of DB Netz AG
• Electronic signal box and a. the main S-Bahn line (in the operations center)
• various business units of Deutsche Bahn in the building of the former Federal Railway Directorate in Munich
• Presentation group north (northwest) and presentation group south (southeast of the bridge), the two parking facilities of Munich Central Station

Meaning of the name

The Donnersbergerbrücke was named together with the Donnersbergerstraße after Joachim Freiherr von Donnersberg (1561-1650), privy councilor and supreme chancellor of Elector Maximilian I , who came from the Munich patrician family Donnersberger. Therefore, according to the rules of German spelling, the name of the bridge must also be written together and not separately.

Trivia

One of the graffiti on the Donnersbergerbrücke

• From 2005 to 2010, the Munich cultural worker Sebastian Pohl actively campaigned for the wall areas below the Donnersbergerbrücke to be cleared for graffiti.
• From 2011, large parts of the bridge were sprayed with graffiti with the support of the municipal building department (€ 15,000) and the Stadtsparkasse Munich (€ 10,000) .
• Willy Astor sang about the Donnersbergerbrücke in his eponymous (albeit incorrectly written) song “Donnersberger Brück'n” as the “Golden Gate for the poor”.

literature

• Building Department of the City of Munich (Ed.): Mittlerer Ring: Donnersbergerbrücke . Self-published, Munich 1972 (large city in planning and expansion; 41).
• Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: City of Munich, Construction Department. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Korhammer, Armin Franzke, Ernst Rudolph: Turntable of the South. Munich railway junction . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7771-0236-9 , p. 97 .
2. ↑ muenchen.de: City Chronicle 1935
3. ↑ Light for pedestrians and works of art required. (No longer available online.) Hello Munich , March 9, 2009, archived from the original on April 11, 2016 ; Retrieved March 9, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Thunderstorm, this Donnersbergerbrücke! tz , August 22, 2013, accessed March 9, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Graffiti meets monastery walls. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 3, 2014, accessed on March 9, 2014 . 

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 32 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 4 ″  E