Dove Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 10 ″ E
| Dove Bridge | ||
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Dovestrasse | |
| Crossing of | Landwehr Canal | |
| place | Berlin , Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, Charlottenburg district | |
| construction | Vault bridge | |
| start of building | 1910 | |
| completion | 1911 | |
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The Dovebrücke is a road bridge over the Landwehr Canal in Berlin - Charlottenburg , which connects Dovestrasse in the north of Charlottenburg's commercial district in the Spreebogen with the south-facing Cauerstrasse. It is the last bridge over the Landwehr Canal before its confluence with the Spree , about 100 m further west , was built between 1910 and 1911 and is a listed building .
history
Its predecessor was a temporary wooden bascule bridge built in 1890, which provided the first quick connection between the predominantly worker-inhabited district around Galvani- and Guerickestrasse with the factories north of the canal.
It was designed so that 1910-1911 just east beside her a massive arch bridge in stamped concrete could be built without it already torn down and must therefore interrupt the transport connection. The new building was carried out according to plans by the civil engineer August Bredtschneider (city building officer for civil engineering in the city of Charlottenburg) and the architect Heinrich Seeling (city building officer for building construction in the city of Charlottenburg);
The wooden previous building already bore the name Dove Bridge . With the large number of bridges in the Berlin metropolitan area, it was common practice at the time to name new buildings after the streets they connected. Dovestrasse, on the other hand, was named in 1892 after the physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , who died in 1879 .
description
The bridge consists of two basket arch vaults, the bridge axis is at an angle of 77 ° to the longitudinal axis of the canal. The larger of the two vaults spans the canal with a span of 24 m, the smaller with a span of 9.70 m spans the deep loading road on the southern bank of the canal, which today serves as a combined pedestrian and cycle path.
The concrete vault construction was clad on the underside with facing concrete and on the sides with reddish clinker bricks (in a Dutch format , which is unusual for Berlin ), the structures and the three-dimensional architectural jewelry created by the Berlin sculptor Hermann Feuerhahn are made of shell limestone . The bridge has two lanes and wide sidewalks on both sides. The massive parapet is about 1.60 meters high.
On the east side of the northern abutment perform two stairways from Salzufer down to a public toilet system attached (Contemporary "lavatory"), which now has long been shut down and is in ruinous state. Their interiors were illuminated by skylights in the sidewalk surface, towards the canal their circular segment-shaped structure shows a conspicuous wreath of shell limestone columns that originally supported the protruding dome-like roof.
While the careful architectural design of this component was basically only perceptible from the opposite bank and from the canal, the bridge on the southern abutment had two components that were originally much more effective. A high clock tower and a small office building for the transshipment operation of the loading street, which also housed technical ancillary systems for the electrically operated loading cranes, were connected to the west. This component is only preserved with changes up to about the height of the bridge parapet. A kind of optical “counterweight” on the east side of the bridgehead was a larger-than-life figure made of shell limestone, which was also by Hermann Feuerhahn, standing on a high pedestal . No structural remains of this purely decorative element can be seen today.
literature
- Zangemeister: New construction of the Dove Bridge in Charlottenburg. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 46th year 1912,
- No. 22 (of March 16, 1912), pp. 205–208 (part 1)
- No. 25 (of March 27, 1912), pp. 230–232 (part 2)
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and its bridges. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 .
Web links
- Dove Bridge in the Berlin State Monument List
- Ponton's Bridges . Retrieved January 29, 2017.
- Picture gallery at structurae.de; accessed on January 29, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dovestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )