Swing Bridge (Lübeck)
The Harbor Swing Bridge in Lübeck is a formerly combined road and rail bridge over the Trave between Lübeck's old town and the Wall Peninsula , a listed building since January 5, 1990 .
The swing bridge was built in 1892 by Gutehoffnungshütte , Oberhausen, as part of the expansion of the infrastructure of the Lübeck city ports. It is an essential part of the Rehder planning, named after the Lübeck hydraulic engineer Peter Rehder , from 1884. The fully functional hydraulic bridge system made of riveted steel framework forms with the company building in neo-Gothic brick shapes and a pipe channel along the Behnkai to the gantry crane No. 1 at the tip of the northern part Wall peninsula is a technical and functional unit. The operating building consists of the driver's cab, the tower building to accommodate the hydraulic cylinders and the former steam engine house. After the drive technology was converted to electrical operation around 1905, the steam engine and the associated chimney on the north side of the building were removed.
The bridge is controlled manually from the bridge keeper's house on the Wall Peninsula. It is opened when ships head for the Lübeck Museum Harbor or want to leave it. For use by the Lübeck port railway ( Nordic Rail Service ), the swing bridge could be closed to road traffic by means of a traffic light system until 2014, whereby the so-called "harbor track" via the swing bridge along "An der Untertrave" and via the lift bridge was shut down and already from 2012 was dismantled in stages. The bridge is used by 17,700 vehicles every day. After it had been steered with levers up to then, the bridge received an electronic control in 2005.
On October 21, 2014, the renovation work on the bridge began, which was funded with 100,000 euros from the Federal Government's special preservation program and 18,000 euros from the German Foundation for Monument Protection . But the bridge was closed for months. In the process, the track on the road out of town of the bridge was removed and the connections grouted after the port railway track that also ran over the lift bridge had become obsolete. In May 2015 the swing bridge was reopened to traffic.
Web links
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Bridge Status Report 2008 (PDF; 1.57 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Hanseatic City of Lübeck, renovation of the swing bridge on November 11, 2014
- ↑ JW: Free travel on the swing bridge! Lübecker Stadtzeitung, No. 900 of May 26, 2015, p. 1.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 21.3 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 56.1" E