Meat bridge

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 11 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  E

Meat bridge
Meat bridge
View from the museum bridge to the west
use pedestrian
Subjugated Pegnitz
place Nuremberg
width 15.30 meters
Number of openings 1
Clear width 27 meters
Arrow height 4.20 meters
Arch thickness (vertex) 1.35 m at the top to just under 4 m on the fighters
Arrow ratio 1: 6.4
start of building 1596
completion 1598
planner Peter Carl , Jakob Wolff the Elder and Wolf Jacob Stromer
location
Fleischbrücke (Bavaria)
Meat bridge
Fleischbrücke, view from the Love Island to the east
The ox portal

The Fleischbrücke is a stone arch bridge that spans the Pegnitz in Nuremberg . The road bridge is located south of the main market and connects the districts of St. Sebald and St. Lorenz . The structure dates from the end of the 16th century and is one of the most important bridge structures of the late Renaissance in Germany.

history

The oldest bridge in Nuremberg at the narrowest point of the Pegnitz is dated around 1200, the meat bridge was first mentioned in a document from 1335. A neighboring meat store gave the building its name. In 1418 the wooden structure burned down. In 1432 a flood destroyed the new bridge, which was then rebuilt. In 1487 the wooden structure was replaced by a stone bridge with a central pillar and two arches.

In 1595 this previously damaged structure was so badly damaged by floods that the city decided to demolish it and replace it with a new building. This should not have a central pillar in order not to reduce the flow profile. In addition, due to the traffic, a flat structure was sought. On March 1, 1596, construction began on the flat, single-arch stone bridge. The foundation and the falsework were planned and executed by master carpenter Peter Carl , master mason Jakob Wolff was responsible for the natural stone masonry . The construction management was held by the council builder Wolf Jacob Stromer , from whose possession master builder books with countless bridge designs from all over Europe for the preliminary planning and a building model of the Rialto bridge have been preserved. The building was completed at the end of 1598 and cost 82,172 guilders. In February 1599 a side portal with a stone ox was built.

Since then, the bridge has remained practically unchanged and has not been destroyed. It also survived the Second World War almost undamaged. In 1974 it was placed under monument protection. An extensive repair of the sandstone masonry was carried out from 2004 to 2005.

On June 10, 2011, the building was awarded the title of Historic Landmark of Civil Engineering in Germany by the Federal Chamber of Engineers . The honor plaque was placed at the southern end of the meat bridge in the direction of Kaiserstrasse.

Building

The natural stone arch bridge has a flat arch with a clear width of 27 and an arrow height of 4.2 meters, which corresponds to an arrow ratio of 1 to 6.4. At the time of construction it was the largest span of a stone arch bridge in Germany. The arch has the shape of a segment of a circle with a radius of 23.8 meters. The total length of the structure (including the abutment) is 61 meters with a width of 15.3 meters, the apex thickness is 1.35 meters. The masonry consists of reddish castle sandstone , which was broken in the Kornberg of the Wendelsteiner ridge. The large horizontal forces that occur due to the flat arch are carried away by massive, brick-built abutments , which are based on over 2000 rammed wooden piles. A special feature are 400 angled piles, a construction method that was rarely used in the 16th century. The Rialto Bridge in Venice is of the same type of construction as the Fleischbrücke . However, this has, among other things, a significantly steeper arch (arrow ratio 1 to 4.5) and a different design, which is why, according to Kaiser, it is not a model or model for the meat bridge.

The structure is simple and clear and is adorned next to the ox portal only by two pulpits in the middle of the bridge, on the outside of which the stone coats of arms of the seven members of the city government at that time are attached. The Latin inscription on the portal reads: "Omnia habent ortus suaque incrementa sed ecce quem cernis nunquam bos fuit hic vitulus", in English: "All things have a beginning and a growth, but see: The ox you see here is never been a calf ”.

Others

Many Nuremberg residents use the saying: “Well, the ox would have thought of that” - translated into High German: “The ox on the meat bridge would have given me this answer too”. With which the speaker expresses his opinion about an unsatisfactory or already well-known answer. No matter what you would ask the stone ox, which lies above the ox portal - you will not get an answer from him. There is also a modified form that is used to tell someone that they are unteachable: "I might as well have told that on the meat bridge!"

Outlet of the flood tunnel (right in the picture)

As the narrowest part of the Pegnitz river bed, the Fleischbrücke has always been an obstacle to flood discharge . During the catastrophic flooding in 1909, a backwater flooded large parts of the old town. Therefore, after 1945, there were initially considerations to remove the Fleischbrücke in order to widen the river bed in the course of flood protection. This could be avoided by building an underground relief tunnel that bypasses the meat bridge to the south.

Historical illustrations

  • Illustration (between 1850 and 1880)

  • Postcard (dated 1915)

  • Postcard (dated 1918)

  • Photography (1942)

literature

Web links

Commons : Meat Bridge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werner Lorenz and Christiane Kaiser: The meat bridge Nuremberg . Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941867-07-9 , page 39.
  2. ^ Werner Lorenz and Christiane Kaiser: The meat bridge Nuremberg . Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941867-07-9 , page 31.
  3. ^ Werner Lorenz and Christiane Kaiser: The meat bridge Nuremberg . Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941867-07-9 , page 40.
  4. ^ Werner Lorenz and Christiane Kaiser: The meat bridge Nuremberg . Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941867-07-9 , page 43 ff.
  5. ^ Christiane Kaiser: The meat bridge in Nuremberg (1596-1598) . Cottbus, Brandenburgische Techn. Univ., Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, 2005, Vol. I, p. 245