Enver Pascha Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 29 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 11 ″ E
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| use | Pedestrians and road traffic | |
| Subjugated | Teltow Canal | |
| place | Potsdam , Babelsberg district | |
| overall length | 30th | |
| width | 10 | |
| completion | September 3, 1901 | |
| Status | Blown up in 1945 | |
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The Enver Pascha Bridge was located in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam and crossed the Teltow Canal between Neubabelsberg and Klein Glienicke . The bridge, which was completed on September 3, 1901, was about 30 meters long and 10 meters wide. It connected the avenue to Glienicke with Wannseestrasse and - in contrast to the neighboring park bridge - was divided into a pedestrian area and a part for road traffic.
The name goes back to the Ottoman officer and politician Damat Ismail Enver (Enver Pascha), who came to Berlin in 1909 as a military attaché and lived in Klein Glienicke until 1911 . Originally it was simply called Babelsberger Brücke or Schlossbrücke because of its connection to Babelsberg Castle . In 1915 it was renamed after Enver Pascha. During his time as a military attaché, he frequented the nearby villa of Friedrich Sarre , where he also lived from 1918 to 1921 during his exile in Berlin.
The bridge was blown up by German troops in 1945 during the fighting during the Second World War . Plans for rebuilding the bridge from 1952 onwards were not implemented. In the 1970s, instead, two inaccessible double-T girders were installed between the bridgeheads that were preserved and used to transfer pipelines and cables.
Looking east towards Griebnitzsee
Looking west towards Glienicker Lake ; in the background the park bridge
literature
- Potsdam Lexicon. City history from A to Z. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942476-03-4 , p. 144.
- Malte Fuhrmann: Potsdam: The Enver Pascha Bridge . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Joachim Zeller (ed.): Colonialism in this country. A search for clues in Germany. Sutton, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-269-8 , pp. 209-214.
Web links
The Enver Pascha Bridge at the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, continued