Falcon Bridge
The Falkenbrücke was a road bridge over the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway in Dresden on the border between the See- and Wilsdruffer suburbs . It was demolished in 1965 in favor of the Budapester Strasse bridge .
history
The Falkenbrücke was part of the old route from Sternplatz via Falkenstrasse and today's Zwickauer Strasse to Plauen . Initially, the road crossed the railway facilities at ground level. In 1876 the construction of an overpass as a stone arch bridge began. There were already two more bridges to the east. The "Chemnitzer Brücke" led the then Chemnitzer Strasse to Plauenschen Platz and via Große Plauensche Strasse to Dippoldiswalder Platz (possibly today's Budapester Strasse and bridge). About the height of the confluence of the Hohen in today's Bayrische Straße there was still the " Hohe Brücke ", which also led to Plauenschen Platz.
When the building was completed, the connection from Chemnitzer Strasse to the southern abutment was expanded and in 1887 was given the name "An der Falkenbrücke". At the confluence of the Falkenstrasse, now known as “Zwickauer Strasse”, a corner building was built with the address “An der Falkenbrücke 2a”, which, among other things, was an artist's studio.
Since 1880 the tracks of the Dresden tram led as part of the route from Postplatz to Plauen ( F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz ) over the Falkenbrücke. The line was opened on August 6, 1880 and replaced the connection from the Bohemian Railway Station via Plauenschen Platz and the Chemnitz Bridge , which was downgraded to the operating line . Since 1887 the bridge has officially been called the "Falkenbrücke". When the Bohemian Railway Station was converted into Dresden Central Station and the associated redesign of the track system in front of it, the arch bridge was replaced by a steel arch construction in 1895.
After the Falkenbrücke survived the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 with damage, it stood in the way of two construction measures in the 1960s: On the one hand, the Budapester Strasse bridge was built from 1965, which was to take up the spacious Budapester Strasse traffic route that had been created instead of Chemnitzer Strasse , on the other hand, the railway line was electrified so that the clearance height of the Falkenbrücke was no longer sufficient to attach the catenary .
In the early summer of 1965, the Falkenbrücke was initially closed to motor vehicles and a few days later to pedestrians and then removed. The Budapester Strasse bridge was not opened as a replacement until 1967. The street name "An der Falkenbrücke" was then given up. Today the path is the entrance to two high-rise student apartment buildings, the course at that time can still be guessed from a suitable perspective.
The ramp from the intersection with Feldschlößchenstrasse / Zwickauer Strasse to the southern abutment and parts of the abutment can still be seen today. Due to the extensive redesign of this area after the war, nothing is left of the northern bridge connection. The course of the Falkenbrücke is still made clear today by an overpass for supply lines over the tracks.
- todays situation
An existing bridge for lines shows the former location of the Falkenbrücke
southern abutment
Looking north towards Falkenstrasse
Ramp to the southern abutment
The former street "An der Falkenbrücke"
Web links
- Falkenbrücke in the Stadtwiki Dresden
- Falkenbrücke, view from 1963 in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilsdruffer suburb. In: dresden-und-sachsen.de. Uwe Miersch, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Bodenbach - Dresden-Neustadt. Dresden Central Station. In: sachsenschiene.de. Jens Herbach, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ^ Adolf Hantzsch: Name book of the streets and squares of Dresden . In: Messages from the Society for the History of Dresden . Issues 17/18. Verlaghandlung Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1905, p. 35 .
- ↑ Lars Herrmann: At the Falkenbrücke. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 21.9 ″ E