Goethe Bridge (Hanover)
The Goethe Bridge in Hanover leads over the Leine in the course of Goethestrasse .
history
The Goethe Bridge was built in 1872–73 according to a design by Wilhelm Launhardt , after the former moat had been filled in from 1870 in order to create Goethe and Humboldtstrasse instead.
This marked the expansion of the city to the west, which had been planned since 1828, and the connection of the suburb of Glocksee to Hanover's old town . The delay was caused by difficult land acquisition.
The older Cavalier Bridge had to give way to the Goethe Bridge , which previously only allowed a line to be crossed from the former riding arena to the prisoner house . Possible remains of the foundation walls of this old prison at Clevertor in the Calenberger Neustadt (former address: Lange Straße 1 ) can still be found today at the foot of the Goethe Bridge.
At the beginning of the 1960s, two "framing structures for the Goethe Bridge" were erected:
- 1960 to 1963 the ÜSTRA house at the address Am Hohen Ufer 6 based on plans by Dieter Oesterlen ;
- 1961 to 1963 the Leine house by the architect Rolf Wékel ; the building was redesigned from 1999 to 2000 by the architects Kellner, Schleich, Wunderling .
Structure
The segment arch bridge was made of sandstone. Pointed arches with three passes and the Hanover city coat of arms are incorporated into the openwork stone railing.
The bridge has a span of 23.4 m and is 29.2 m wide.
literature
- Helmut Knocke : Goethe Bridge. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 224.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: Goethe Bridge (see literature)
- ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Am Hohen Ufer. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 79–80
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27.6 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 43.5" E