Storkower Strasse footbridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '27 " N , 13 ° 27' 53" E
Storkower Strasse footbridge |
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| use | Foot traffic | |
| Crossing of | Ringbahn | |
| place | Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg | |
| overall length | 130.00 m | |
| width | 4.00 m | |
| Longest span | 20.00 m | |
| start of building | 1937 | |
| completion | 1940 | |
| opening | 1940 | |
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The Storkower Strasse pedestrian bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Berlin that crosses the Ringbahn in the Pankow district at Storkower Strasse station . It is popularly called Langer Jammer .
history
Shortly after the opening of the Zentralviehhof on March 1, 1881, the Zentralviehhof train station was opened on May 4th . A 100 meter long wooden pedestrian bridge was built so that pedestrians could get from the S-Bahn station via the four tracks of the unloading station to the cattle yard . Pedestrians who wanted to continue to the residential area on Eldenaer Strasse had to pass the cattle farms the rest of the way, which was not without danger. In 1928, therefore, plans were started to build a bridge that would span the entire route from the train station to Eldenaer Straße. Coordination problems between the city of Berlin, the cattle yard and the Deutsche Reichsbahn delayed the start of construction until 1937.
From 1937 to July 1940, a 420 meter long, four meter wide and six meter high steel pedestrian bridge was built across the cattle yard, which led into a brick stair tower on Eldenaer Straße. In order not to hinder the work on the cattle yard, she stood on 22 supports, some of which were between 20 and 32 meters apart. On a southern section, the pillars were simply built into the roof of one of the cattle stables during construction, so that the bridge ran over the building. The bridge was covered and glazed with opaque panes. The reason for the opacity were concerns of the bridge construction office that the "possibility of observing scenes inevitably associated with the cattle yard operation would pose a moral hazard, especially for urban youth" (from the explanatory report of the bridge construction office from 1936). At the time of completion of the steel bridge, the wooden bridge was demolished. Badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War and fell over long distances, it was lifted and reconstructed until 1951.
From 1976 to 1977 the bridge was extensively repaired and extended to 505 meters by adding an 85 meter long section from the S-Bahn station to the new Lichtenberg residential area of Fennpfuhl . The bridge was thus the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe. The additional section had already been planned in the 1930s, but construction was postponed. Shortly after the opening of the section, the S-Bahn station was given its current name on October 15, 1977, Storkower Straße .
In the course of the reconstruction of the Ringbahn and the renovation of the stations, the 85-meter-long section was extensively repaired from August 1996 to December 1997 for 1.3 million marks (adjusted for inflation in today's currency: around 901,000 euros) and equipped with two handicapped-accessible elevators.
On June 3, 2002, the demolition of a 300 meter long middle section of the bridge began because the bridge did not fit into the concept of the urban development company Eldenaer Straße for the site and the repair and maintenance costs would have amounted to up to 20 million euros. By the end of 2003, a 45 meter long section from the new Hermann-Blankenstein-Straße to the S-Bahn station had been repaired and given a new staircase. The total costs for demolition and repair amounted to around two million euros. A section of 75 meters in length on Eldenaer Straße was initially preserved for monument protection reasons, but was also demolished in March 2006.
In the vernacular it was also called Langer Jammer , but also Langes Elend or Rue de Galopp , due to its neglected condition in GDR times . The street Zum Langen Jammer in the Eldena district therefore got its name.
literature
- Eberhard Heinze, Eckhard Thiemann, Laurenz Demps: Berlin and its bridges . 1st edition. Transpress, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00105-1 , p. 106-107 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of the Zentralviehhof S-Bahn station, Storkower Straße
- ^ Reports of the Senate Department for Urban Development from May 15, 2002 ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Microsoft Word ) and September 11, 2003 ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Microsoft Word )
- ↑ Jens-Christof Niemeyer: series of images on the Storkower Straße S-Bahn station and the pedestrian bridge
- ↑ To the great misery. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )