Gebsattel Bridge
The Gebsattelbrücke is an arch bridge in Munich . It leads the Hochstraße over the Gebsattelberg and the Gebsattelstraße.
location
The Gebsattelbrücke is located in the Au district of Munich . It bridges the Gebsattelberg and Gebsattelstrasse, which leads from Mariahilfplatz to the higher Regerplatz, at a right angle . It forms a section of the Hochstraße, which runs from Nockherberg to Rosenheimer Straße. For pedestrians, the bridge can also be reached directly from Gebsattelstraße via two flights of stairs.
history
After the construction of Corneliusstrasse was planned in the Munich bridge construction program, the Obere Au should also be better connected to the city center by a road in the extension of this bridge. To take the serpentine road up the high bank of the Isar would have meant a break in the elevated road that runs near the edge of the slope. Since this street was very important for traffic, a different solution was found: the new street, which was named Gebsattelstraße after the first Archbishop of Munich and Freising Lothar Anselm von Gebsattel (1761–1846), became perpendicular to the edge of the slope The Gebsattelberg was led up in a deep ditch and the Hochstraße was led over this cut with the Gebsattelbrücke.
The bridge was built in 1901 according to the plans of the architect Theodor Fischer . It is a listed building. The building was renovated from May 1998 to January 1999.
description
The bridge is 18 m long and 13.4 m wide. The two bridge railings are interrupted by small windows that are decorated with wrought iron bars. In the middle of each railing is an obelisk with a bronze heron holding a lily branch in its beak. The lily branch can also be found in the coat of arms of the Au . Below each obelisk there is a sculpture of a Munich child .
The western bridge over the slope is adorned with a small fountain, the eastern staircase with a larger than life bear sculpture.
regional customs
From 1948 the annual Munich soap box race took place on the "Gebsattelberg" under the Gebsattelbrücke . It was held until the beginning of the 1960s and was revived in 2004 on the occasion of the festival “150 years of incorporation in Au”.
literature
- Christoph Hackelsberger: Munich and its Isar bridges . Heinrich Hugendubel, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-88034-107-4 .
- Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: City of Munich, Construction Department. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Repair of the road bridge over Gebsattelstraße with stairs. (No longer available online.) SPD local association Au, archived from the original on November 18, 2012 ; Retrieved November 5, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ On the history of the soap box races on Gebsattelberg. Soap box club Gebsattelflitzer, accessed on November 5, 2009 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 32.6 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 10.5 ″ E