Eric Warburg Bridge
The Eric Warburg Bridge is a bascule bridge on the edge of Lübeck's old town. As the major part of the Lübeck north bypass over the Trave, it relieves traffic in the area of the world cultural heritage .
Planning and construction
The planning of the bridge route is based on initial plans by the Lübeck building director Peter Rehder in the 19th century about 200 meters upstream. The bridge would then have crossed the current site of the mills H. & J. Brüggen at the height of the silo built in 1923 next to the Swedish Church in the direction of Burgfeld . The new bridge connects the district in the north-east of the old town of St. Gertrude in the wake of the so-called northern bypass with the located in the northwest of the Old Town district of St. Lorenz-Nord . It complements the ring road system between A 1 / Schwartauer Allee and Travemünder Allee . The bridge was opened to public vehicle traffic on March 10, 2008.
The passage width for shipping is 37.5 meters, the passage height is 6 meters under the unopened hatch (in mean water ), 7 meters in the side gate of the bridge.
Namesake
It is named after the Hamburg banker Eric M. Warburg , whose family today, the private bank MM Warburg & CO leads, located in the Second World War had advocated that Lübeck by the intervention of the International Committee of the Red Cross under its Swiss President Carl Jacob Burckhardt of was spared further bombing raids.
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- ↑ Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860-1945. A photographic foray. Bremen 2007, p. 102 ff. ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2
- ↑ Report on HL-live.de
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Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 2 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 32" E